New Theatre

Coalgate, OK 74538

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Previous Names: Holt Theatre

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The New Theatre was operating prior to 1950. By 1952 it had been renamed Holt Theatre after being taken over by Jack ‘Eddie’ Holt. It was still open in 1957, again operating as the New Theatre.

Contributed by Jeff Chapman

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raybradley
raybradley on March 22, 2011 at 2:25 pm

This is Coalgate’s downtown, let’s hope an oldtimer will point out where the New Theatre sat,
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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on January 14, 2022 at 9:55 am

According to the trade press, Mr. and Mrs. Jack “Eddie” Holt of the New Theatre refreshed the New Theatre renaming it as the Holt Theatre. Mr. Holt owned both the Wigwam and the Holt when he testified in 1952 before a committee trying to slap a 20% entertainment tax on the movie theater industry. Holt suggested that the tax could cause 70% of all theatres to close if such a tax were instituted partially due to both the onset of television and the fact that all theaters would lose money if not for concessions. Holt would first close the Holt Theatre that decade and then the Wigwam in 1959.

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