Rialto Theatre
420 W. Chickasha Avenue,
Chickasha,
OK
73108
420 W. Chickasha Avenue,
Chickasha,
OK
73108
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Closed in 1957 as a movie house, but remains as a special events theater until 1961.
Local architect E. H. (Enos Henry) Eads was interviewed for an article in the April 15, 1920, edition of the Chickasha Daily Express, at the time construction of this theater began. Because it was a conversion of an existing structure, Eads made the far too optimistic estimate of forty days for completion of the project.
The project was apparently scaled down a bit as well, since the newspaper reported that it would have 942 seats, and would include a balcony, and twelve boxes each seating four people. Eads also acted as contractor on the project.