Quail Twin Theatre
10950 N. May Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73132
10950 N. May Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73132
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Closed in February 1974 after the collapse of the Entertainment theatres chain and reopened by Commonwealth Theatres on August 7th, 1974. Grand opening ad posted.
This opened on December 20th, 1968.
Quail Twin Theatre opening Fri, Dec 20, 1968 – 15 · The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) · Newspapers.com
I was the final manager of the theater. It closed in 1988, not 1985. At the time it closed, it had the last 70mm projector in town.
I used to see many films here. Very nice. I remember seeing Star Trek: The Motion Picture on opening night here.
Laser Quest only has one of the auditoriums. The other has been converted into some sort of garage.
Sorry, but this was not built on the site of the old Twilight Gardens. Twilight was at May & Britton. Quail was at Hefner & Britton.
Roadside Oklahoma web page has modern photos of the former Quail Twin Cinema. Looks like the lobby is now a bagel shop.
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/508
Once I saw a first rate (mid ‘70s) photo of this theatre snapped by Jeff Chapman. Wish he would allow it to be posted because it demonstrates just how classy this cinema really was.
Earthquake and Young Frankenstein came out in 1974.
I saw the first run of WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY there in ‘71, EARTHQUAKE (in Sensurround), YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN in '72, and many, many more. I remember seeing Danny Williams in the lobby too. Just sayin’!
The Quail Twin Theatre was not demolished, It currently serves as a Laser Tag gaming place.