Tower Theater
1105 S. Denver Avenue,
Tulsa,
OK
74119
1105 S. Denver Avenue,
Tulsa,
OK
74119
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The Tower Theater was operated at one point by Griffith Consolidated and showed art/foreign language films.
TOWER Theater opened 1930, and near the end of the 1960s was an off and on operation until it closed completely. Structure sat empty many years and finally was razed 1977.
A vintage photo of the former Tower Theater in Tulsa can be seen here.
Two 1940s era pictures showing the tiny Tower Theater in its neighborhood surroundings,
http://www.tulsalibrary.org/JPG/B0173.jpg
http://www.tulsalibrary.org/JPG/B0174.jpg
To see 1940s views of the Tower Theatre’s modest lobby and auditorium type in word “tower”,
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Those 40s photos show what little interior decoration the Tower Theatre had. Exterior styling was simple Spanish Colonial, while the interior was done up in Southwestern Moderne. Love that standee carpet pattern, bet it was colorful!
Architect W. Scott Dunne designed the Tower Theater.
The lot where the Tower Theatre stood has been a parking lot for over thirty three years now, but it looks as if construction has now begun on a new project
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Great looking Picture.