Palace Theatre
S. Broadway Street,
Coweta,
OK
74014
S. Broadway Street,
Coweta,
OK
74014
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The Jewel Theatre appears to have launched February 3, 1910 with Margrethe Jespersen in “The Anarchist’s Mother-in-Law” and Max Linder in “His First Cigar”. The theatre closed in the 1920’s. It was reopened by J.D. Parker on February 12, 1924 as the Broadway Theatre showing silent films. The Broadway closed in 1927 and got new management.
It relaunched on September 5, 1927 as the Palace Theatre with Jack Mulhall in “See You in Jail”. The theatre featured silent films and a Wurlitzer Orchestral for accompaniment at its opening. In April of 1931, a new sound system installed by Lester Miller improved the viability of the theatre.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Martin began construction of a new venue, the Joy Theatre in November of 1945. War shortages delayed its opening until August 8, 1946. The Martins continued operating the Palace Theatre making Coweta a two-theatre town - unusual for a town of just under 1,500 residents. The Palace Theatre folded on November 27, 1948 with Jon Hall in “The Vigilantes” supported by selected short subjects.
The Palace Building found other uses and the lobby was used for a number of special events including bake sales and blood drives.
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Uploaded the image of a page from the January 6, 1916 Coweta Times-Sun on which an ad for the Jewel appears.
Since one of the prior names of the Palace was Broadway and Broadway is the main street of Coweta I would think it would be an educated guess the theatre was located on Broadway.