Fox Four Theater
3364 E. 51st Street,
Tulsa,
OK
3364 E. 51st Street,
Tulsa,
OK
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The Fox Four theater was located at 51st and Harvard and went through a number of names. It started out with a single screen and was twinned and then quadrupled. It originally featured a Cinerama auditorium. The last film shown on that screen before it was twinned was “2001: A Space Odyssey”. In its history it was operated by National General Corp., Fox Midwest Theaters and General Cinema. The theater was demolished in 1993.
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Here is the “2001: A Space Odyssey” ad for the Fox Theater.
I worked with Blake Smith at the Fox 4 Cinemas for a time as projectionist. I really admire how they were able to take the twin theater and make it into 4 screens. The twins were simply cut right down the middle length wise and theaters with about 100 or so seats were created. It was a rather nice second-run house.
The theater itself was never actually demolished. The building itself still stands today, only as a gym.
I was an usher at the Fox from 1967-1969. I was popular at Kelley as I had free access to “2001”! Stoned hippies used to come in during the last 30 minutes to lay down in front of the giant Cinerama screen and zone out! I miss the Fox and the wonderful people I met there. What ever happened to Mr. Nichols???
Here is a late 1960’s photo of the Fox Theatre marquee as it originally stood to advertise a single screen, 2000 seat theatre.
http://www.tulsalibrary.org/JPG/B8207.jpg
Found on this informative site are recent shots of the Fox Four Cinema, Tulsa,
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/716
Thanks guys for the great ad 2001,and the pictures. Real Theatres,my friends,not 20 plexes!
The Cinema Section of Roadside Oklahome is closed, they no longer have theatre photos according to the site. Go to their home page for further details.