Park Lane Twin Theater
4908 S. Sheridan Road,
Tulsa,
OK
74145
4908 S. Sheridan Road,
Tulsa,
OK
74145
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This theater operated from 1970 as a single screen. The theater was twinned in the 1980’s. Over the years it had several operators; Rowley United, United Artists and Wallace Theaters. The Park Lane Twin was closed in 2000.
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Recent color photographs can be seen on this link of Tulsa’s lost twin cinemas;
http://www.losttulsa.com/
After closing as a movie theater, this building was used to host plays, musicals and comedies, until being converted for use by Wright Business School.
“Nothing endures but change.” Heraclitus ca.535-475 BC
This is a photo of the Wright Business School.
The Park Lane Theatre opened as an 896 seat single screen house, on Friday, March 27, 1970. The contemporary-styled house was designed by the Tulsa architectural firm of Whiteside, Schultz, & Chadsey, who had earlier designed the Boman Twin in Tulsa and the Eastland Twins in Bartlesville.
As described in an article in Boxoffice Magazine, on April 13, 1970, the Park Lane was designed to serve as a roadshow house, and to accommodate other long-running movies, and had both 35mm and 70mm projection equipment. The lobby was large enough to hold a waiting crowd equal to the house’s seating capacity. The screen was 65x25 feet, and had side masking. The house was built for General Theator (that’s the way Boxoffice spelled the company name) to replace their Tulsa Theatre, which had been lost to an urban renewal project.
The worst has finally come to happen. The Park Lane, as it still stood from its exterior, has been remodeled over by the Wright Business School. For may years, the lobby space, restrooms and whole exterior remained while the rest of the building was gutted on the inside, theaters and all. Now it’s all gone. Truly a shame, as the Park Lane ws the Premier Movie House for roadshow attractions. I have the newspaper clipping from when it opened, and will do my best to upload those photos.