Del City Theater
2900 Epperly Drive,
Del City,
OK
73115
2900 Epperly Drive,
Del City,
OK
73115
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Located in Del City to the southeast of Oklahoma City. The Del City Theater was opened on September 23, 1949 with Donald O'Connor in “Yes Sir, That’s My Baby”. In 1984 the Del City Theater was closed, but appeared to be in good condition. It was was housed in a brick building with a red and white trimmed marquee forming a point over and sheltering the entrance and outside ticket booth. On each side of the marquee "Del City" was spelled out in red letters.
The Del City Theater was converted into a music store and by 2018 is Castlerow Studios.
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A 1984 photo of the Del City Theater in Del City.
A June, 1950 photo of the Del Theatre can be seen on this site by typing in word “theatre”,
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At 2900 Eperly Drive stands the former Del City Theatre, now converted into a music store …
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/321
A shortcut to a clear vintage photo of the Del City Theatre can be seen on below link by typing in word “movie”,
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Converted to Bob Wood’s Music, this is a recent street view of the former Del City Theatre,
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I went to this theater in 1966 to see “Spencer’s Mountain”, which was a ‘scope picture. This theater didn’t have a CinemaScope screen, so they made razor blade scratches from the cue marks into the picture so they could make changeovers. The original cue marks were completely cut off.
Thanks for posting this Theatre, had no idea that the building is still there…A million eons ago, my very first girl friend date was here..Great and fond memories of this ole Theatre.
My first telephone number I dialed was at the ticket booth there in 1963. Saturday morning matinee and then across the street to T,G &Y for more candy.“Wild Angels” “War of the worlds” “Sinbad the Sailor”“Fantastic Voyage”“Goldfinger”
This opened on September 23rd, 1949. Grand opening ad posted.
I worked as a relief projectionist at the Del City Theater in 1958-59. Despite other comments, the theater definitely did have ‘scope lenses for the (Simplex E-7) projectors. True, the screen and the projector aperture plates didn’t match the CinemaScope specs, but you got to see the middle 2/3 of the picture, didn’t you? However, the prints we ran were almost never in good shape - having been through dozens of other theaters before we ever saw them. I don’t miss the fun of carrying 100-pound steel film shipping cans up and down the stairs to the booth, but the rest of it (free popcorn and soda but full-price candy) and a sort of on-the-job course in film studies - all that was OK.