Warner Theatre
213 W. Sheridan Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73102
213 W. Sheridan Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73102
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The Warner Theater was a Cinerama theater that featured a 60 by 24 foot screen. It was demolished in 1964.
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Also on the site posted just above this comment check out other interesting photographs.
Type in word ‘architecture’ or ‘drawing’ to see non theatre designs by noted theatre architects such as Layton, Smith, & Forsyth, Parr & Hawks, Leon Senter, and William Wells.
One of the images you’ll see is Springlake Ballroom which also contained a silent picture theatre.
Type in word ‘overholser’ to look at interior views of that fabulouse mansion.
Several vintage views of the Warner Theater can be viewed on this updated site;
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http://schehrer2.homestead.com/Population.html
In 1922 Oklahoma City had a population of only 92,000. The Warner Theater was really the only “big time” theatre OKC had. Perhaps the Criterion and Liberty came close to first class, but neither had that extra pizzazz needed to rate top notch.
The Warner was a historical monument in the main vein of downtown OKC and was the only movie theater in OKC with an unbelivable history that grew with not only the City but, the state of OK. Also, it was the only theater that had not only a full stage behind the screen but, below the stage, multiple dressing rooms that were about
10x10 and each had hot and cold running water / sinks. There also was a trap door in the floor of the stage that opened to the basement. Too bad the City allowed it to be bull dozed!
Other OKC theatres that contained full working stages (and multiple dressing rooms) behind their screens were the Capitol, Centre, Circle, Criterion, Delmar Garden, Empire, Empress, Folly, Home-State, Liberty, Majestic, Metropolitan, Midwest, Tower, and Victoria.
Roadside Oklahoma shows several vintage views of the old Warner Theatre;
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/487
From Doug Loudenback’s fun web site come these vintage imges of the Warner
(AKA-Overholser, Orpheum) Theatre,
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‘SKATING VANITIES of 1947’ may have played the Warner Theatre since live stage productions were presented up till Cinerama euipment was installed in 1952. To have a look at a wall sign advertising this show go to oklahomo coboyz 08-07-07 post and type “421 w main, oklahoma city”
Shown here are 1943 newspaper ads for the Warner,
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c1930 photo of the Warner Theater with original lightbulb marquee,
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