Tulsa Movie Theaters

Steve Clem,Maggie Brown,The Tulsa Historical Society And Museum

Tulsa Movie Theaters
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Country
United States
Published
19 July 2021
Pages
128
ISBN
9781467106856

Tulsa Movie Theaters

Steve Clem,Maggie Brown,The Tulsa Historical Society And Museum

Going to the movies has always been special. Tulsa’s first theater opened in 1906 with a lineup of silent reels and live vaudeville entertainment. During the next two decades, dozens of movie houses opened downtown, including the Big Four: the Ritz, Orpheum, Majestic, and Rialto. As Tulsa grew, neighborhood theaters, including the Brook, Delman, and Will Rogers, became favorites. Drive-in theaters soon followed around the city boundaries. In 1965, Tulsa’s first multiplex–the Boman Twin–opened. Tulsans experienced blockbuster films at these theaters with multiple screens and increasingly smaller auditoriums. Tulsa also hosted star-studded movie premieres. Among them were The Outsiders and the 1949 premiere of Tulsa, featuring the biggest parade and crowd in Tulsa’s history. Perhaps the most well-known theater–the Dreamland on Black Wall Street–was destroyed during the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre. Although it was rebuilt, images of the Dreamland in ruins are iconic.

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