Forum Theater
202 E. Choctaw Avenue,
McAlester,
OK
74501
202 E. Choctaw Avenue,
McAlester,
OK
74501
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The Forum Theater was opened on November 24, 1909. Shown in the link below is a rather morbid image of the Forum Theater with those horse drawn hearse parked out front. Don’t know whether or not this was a publicity gimmick, so I asked several old timers if there was ever a funeral parlor nearby to this theater, but nobody could recall. The Forum Theater was closed in 1914.
A new Forum Theatre at a different address was opened by 1917. I once saw a vintage photograph of McAlester’s Forum Theater when it was featuring a silent pucture entitled “The Awakening” which was distributed around 1917.
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Jeff Chapman
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Click here to view above mentioned vintage photograph-
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Wrong again. TRY this link-
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McAlester Public Library has provided the correct address for the Forum Theatre, it was at 202 East Choctaw Avenue. A law firm now occupies this location.
On google maps at the top of this page, using the correct address of 202 E. Choctaw Ave., McAlester, OK 74501-5026 there is a fine image of the former Forum Theatre (now Marilynn’s Boutique). The look of the building has hardly changed through all these years. The V Theatre can also be seen three doors East of the Forum.
Further material regarding the Forum Theatre can be found on this web site,
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/441
From google maps link comes this modern day street view of the former Forum Theatre, now (Marilyn’s Boutique),
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The Forum theatre opened on November 24th, 1909 and its listings ended in 1914. Article posted.
This item from the January 6, 1912 issue of Moving Picture News indicates that the Forum Theater operated in at least two locations in McAlester: “McAlester, Okla.—The Forum Moving Picture Theater No. 2 was slightly damaged by fire.” This may explain why there is a photo of a Forum Theater running a movie released around 1917 (as per the description above) even though the house apparently closed in 1914.