Sooner Theater
125 W. Sheridan Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73102
125 W. Sheridan Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73102
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The Sooner Theater in Oklahoma City opened in the late 1940’s and closed around 1970. A photo that I found of the Sooner Theater shows it as an adult theater in the 1960’s. Click the link below for the photo.
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Vintage postcard views of the old Folly Theater (1906-1947, burned) can be found in the downtown photo album of this web site. Warner’s Sooner Theater (1948-1971, razed) was built on the burned down Folly Theater lot…
http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/
Warner’s SOONER was the last big downtown theater to be built. The correct address was 125 West Grand, OKC. 125 W Grand Blvd would have place it way out in the neighborhood burbs amoungst the Chieftain, Circle, Knob Hill, Redskin, and Yale.
I used the “SW” in the address because that is how Google Maps showed the address when I tried to map it. In fact, if you click on the map above and delete the “S” from SW and hit search, Google will add the “S” back to the address. If you say that it is West Grand Boulevard, I believe you.
Let me explain, Grand ran through downtown, but during the early 20th century shortsighted OKC planners thought it would be just “grand” to have a boulevard that encircled the entire town, thus Grand Boulevard came to be. As the city grew, expanded, and was devided into quadrants, Grand Blvd became quite a nightmare, and still is to this day.
During the mid 1930’s the downtown street called Grand was renamed Sheridan Ave in order to ease confusion.
Correct address for the downtown Sooner Theater should read;
125 W. Sheridan, Okla City
Until the downtown Sooner Theater switched over to showing X-rated product, it catered to teen-age taste.
A c1957 photograph of the Sooner Theater can be seen on below page. In search area type in word “theatre”, then click on small image for an enlargement -
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Near photo center of this c1913 picture postcard is seen the Folly Theatre with its stud light arch entry way. After the Folly burned the Sooner was built on the same foundation, and utilized the Folly stagehouse.
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Circa 1957 B&W of the Sooner Theatre.
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Downtown Oklahoma City map with photos
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If anyone has any stories about going to/ working at this threatre in its adult days, I would love to hear them. I am chronicling the histories of adult theatres in the US. Please contact me at Thanks!