Ritz Theater
912 W. Britton Road,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73114
912 W. Britton Road,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73114
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The Ritz Theater was open from 1922. After World War II, and following the opening of a new Ritz Theatre around 1954, the old Ritz Theater became a skating rink for a while. Britton was originally a separate town, but is now incorporated into the Oklahoma City metro area.
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From google maps comes this modern day view of the Britton Theatre located in the 900 block of Britton Rd., between Francis and Olie.
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Fire insurance maps show a theatre at modern day 923 W. Britton Road (203 E. Britton Ave. historically). This would match up perfectly with Roy’s excellent account of Britton theatres. It seems as though this entry needs to be changed to Ritz Theatre.
She looks so much better with Googles soft focus and lens flare of the street view than the closeups showing the old lady*s blemishes. Soft focus is much kinder to aging stars than the sharp focus of reality.
Kewpie raybradley’s Google map link above shows an image date of Nov. 2007, which is the image that I was referring. It shows the marquee but not clearly. Double clicking on the thumbnail will give you a blowup.
I uploaded a satellite photo of the street to this page’s photos. The pin drop in the photo is for the current Ritz theatre on the south side of Britton, 912 W Britton. Across the street is the north side of Britton, in the satellite photo counting from the top left, would the Britton theatre have been the second building from the left? This is currently the location of Evolution Tattoos (12/11/2014), 923 W Britton.
I stopped by Evolution Tattoos at 923 W Britton and spoke with the owner and he confirmed that indeed that building he occupies used to be a movie theatre. So yeah, this entry definitely needs to be renamed The Ritz and there needs to be a new entry for Britton Theatre at 923 W Britton.
KenRoe: I think we’ve got the seating capacities reversed. From satellite view it can be seen that the 1954 Ritz on the south side of the street is a much larger building than the first Ritz/Britton on the north side. The Ritz must have been the house with 586 seats and the Britton must have had the 280.
Joe, yes and no. Here’s how it works: the original theatre was called The Ritz and had 280 seats and was on the north side of Britton. After some time the owners wanted more seating capacity so they closed The Ritz and built a brand new theatre across the street on the south side and it had 586 seats and they kept the name The Ritz, this being the new Ritz with the original closed down. Then after some time the south side Ritz closed. Then someone bought BOTH theaters and reopened them at the same time: the north one they called Britton Theatre and the south one stayed The Ritz. The Britton theatre (the original Ritz) is now Evolution Tattoo. The Ritz on the south side (the new Ritz) is currently for sale.
That’s what I was thinking. The new Ritz Theatre on the south side was bigger than the old Ritz/Britton Theatre on the north side, so the new Ritz must have had the 586 seats.
Ritz in 2016
Ritz theatre in 2016 Fri, Jun 17, 2016 – 19 · The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) · Newspapers.com