Redding 4
3684 S. Western Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73109
3684 S. Western Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73109
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I think you meant to write that the header should be updated to read “Reding” with a single “D”.
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.
Comparing the photo from the 1990’s linked above with the Roadside Oklahoma photos, I’d say Roadside has the wrong part of the mall. There are some hefty roof supports in the older photo which do not appear in the later one; it’s possible those columns were removed, I guess. I drove through the shopping center about a year ago, and I could not tell which building housed the theater – and I worked there for about six months! But that was a couple of decades ago…
The name of the theater on this header should be “Reding” with a single R.
Roadside Oklahoma site have modern photos of the colorful Redding 4 Cinema;
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/507
Me too.
Certainly does,but I have seen alot of Theatres on CT that look nothing like a theatre.
The photo looks more like a food store than a theatre.
If the business agent was there it must have been an easy booth to run.Mike Local 629.
This was a fun place in the late 70s. Hummm, think they had Cinemeccanica film towers. Also, pretty sure the business agent was there full time. I was a relief projectionist back then.
It’s actually spelled with only one “R” – should be Reding 4. Here’s a photo from the mid-90s, when a country music live show placed their logo over the “4” in the sign.
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I served as a short-term manager at the Redding 4 for a few months in 1986, while a new theater in Midwest City I was set to manage (Heritage Plaza 5) was under construction. By this time, the Redding was in poor shape – its strip mall location was lackluster and the auditoriums were typical shoeboxes reflecting its early 1970s genesis.
It was the only Commonwealth Theater in OKC to offer regular midnight movies on Fridays and Saturdays – usually our two top features and two staples: Pink Floyd’s The Wall and a battered print of Rocky Horror Picture Show. The latter cult classic regularly attracted a tiny but devoted crowd of some very low-budget RHPS re-enactors.