Tivoli Theatre
201 West Main Street,
Ardmore,
OK
73401
201 West Main Street,
Ardmore,
OK
73401
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In the 1917 Ardmore High School Yearbook was a display ad for the Princess (AKA-Tivoli) Theatre, boasting ten exits, well ventilated, sanitary, and a glad welcome to all!
A Nice looking theatre, stopped by the other day. Such am amazing downtown area. Must have been amazing in it’s day.
… and, Champion’s hoof prints are enshrined in cement inside the forecourt of Hollywood’s Mann’s Chinese Theatre.
Ardmore trivia;
Actress Rue McClanahan grew up here, and Gene Autry’s “Worlds Wonder Horse” Champion (A dark sorrel with four white stockings and a medium-wide blaze) is buried beneath the sidewalk in front of the Tivoli Theatre in Ardmore.
This is what the Tivoli Theatre looks like today. Former Temple Theatre can be seen in distance.
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A direct route to period TIVOLI images-
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/237
Fabulous vintage photos of the Tivoli Theatre can be seen on this siet;
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/driveinsok
A few views from September 2009 of the Tivoli Theatre in Ardmore, but no signs of a remodeling effort at this point.
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This is a January 2009 article about the Tivoli being remodeled. It mentions that the Tivoli was known as the Princess Theater in 1916.
Here is another 2009 photo.
This is a recent photo.
1985 Photo
A 1984 view of the Tivoli Theater here and a 1987 view here.
The lavish Tivoli Theatre was a perfect setting in which to watch a Jeanette MacDonald/Nelson Eddy operetta. To see what I mean go to site below, type in word “tivoli”, then search…
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Here is an October 1968 movie calendar for the Tivoli Theater.
This is a photo of the Tivoli Theater in Ardmore.
The theater was also damaged in an overnight fire in September of 1958. Showing was “Bridge on the River Kwai (1957).”
In the 1930s, the Tivoli was the theater in town that showed first-run films.