Folly Theater
125 W. Sheridan Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73102
125 W. Sheridan Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73102
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In the early-1940’s, the Folly Theater was operated by Paramount Pictures Inc. through their subsidiary Joe Cooper & Warner Bros.
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Here is a facsimile image of OKC’s Folly Theatre ad curtain. Also, on this fantastic web site are colorful pictures of stage scenery backdrops.
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After carefull study of this old olio curtain it is doughtful that it was inside OKC’s Folly Theater. Observe all those advertisements for businesses located in Bowlegs, Oklahoma, and that notice for State & Liberty theaters in Seminole, which is located not too far from Bowlegs.
Also, OKC’s Folly Theater was atmospheric, so it is more likely that their ad curtain would have contained a rural setting, not a city scene.
Surely this must have been an olio curtain for a long forgotten theater in Bowlegs.
Oklahoman Archive web pages have several pictures of the old Folly Theatre. Check these dates for clearest images- April 22, 1909, and September 23, 1913.
Photo Journalist Lewis Wickes Hine took these 1917 snapshots to protest child labor in Oklahoma City. Inadvertantly Hine also captured a little theatre history. From Library Congress Photo Archives.
Newsie at Folly Theatre entrance-
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Western Union Messenger at Folly stage door-
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Folly poster ad-
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There was a fire that damaged the theater in 1947:
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An exceptionally clear, antique postcard view (plate #32) of the Folly Theatre can be seen in the book “THE VANISHED SPLENDOR, Postcard Views of Early Oklahoma City”, by Jim Edwards and Hal Ottaway, Abalache Book Shop Publishing.
From the Oklahoma County Tax Assessor Office comes this vintage picture postcard view of the Folly Theatre (photo center), white structure with stud lighted, arched entrance.
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Vintage images of the Folly Theatre can be viewed on this site;
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After a 1947 fire destroyed the Folly Theater, Warner Bros. built their new Sooner Theater using the old foundation. See photo on below page;
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Doug Loudenback’s interesting site serves up this vintage look at the Folly Theatre. Majectic Theatre can be seen six doors to the right.
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