Tower Theater
Broadway and Pennsylvania Avenue ,
Drumright,
OK
74030
Broadway and Pennsylvania Avenue ,
Drumright,
OK
74030
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1937 photo added credit Griffith Amusement Company Collection 21500.63.1, courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society. One comment said it was on the North side of Broadway a half block West of Pennsylvania Avenue. Couldn’t find anything that looked like it or it’s neighbor based on the 1937 photo. No address in subsequent searches.
The original Tower Theatre in Drumright, opened in 1937 by the Griffith Amusement Company, burned on December 11, 1944. Rebuilding was delayed due to wartime shortages. Boxoffice Magazine of March 30, 1946, announced that the opening of the rebuilt Tower was scheduled for April 12 that year.
Want to know what the OKC Villa Theatre originally looked like? Then look at this cinema, for the Tower was sister to the Villa (a balcony enabled the Villa to have larger seating capacity).
View 1937 excellent interior/exterior photos by typing in word “tower”,
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