Cooper 70
14th and Douglas,
Omaha,
NE
14th and Douglas,
Omaha,
NE
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The Cooper 70 Theater was located on the east half of the same block where the Rialto Theater sat, at 15th/14th and Douglas Streets.The Cooper 70 Theater was originally called the Moon. Although as the Cooper it was a movie house, during most of its history (as the Moon) this theater was Omaha’s bastion of bump (burlesque).
It was radically remodelled in the late 1950s. In its incarnation as the Cooper its architecture was similar to the Indian Hills (now demolished) out on West Dodge Road. The Moon/Cooper was demolished in 1974.
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Was this theater the Cooper Cinerama theater? If it is the same theater, its address was:
1410 Douglas St
Omaha, NE 68102
lost memory, yes this was the same theater, although when the Indian Hills was built the Cinerama projectors were moved from the Cooper to there.
An article in the Lincoln Star gives the demolition date as 12/12/75.
A Hillgreen-Lane theater organ opus 537 size 3/27 was installed in a Moon Theater in Omaha in 1919.
Posted the Moon ad from August 31st, 1919 and Cooper 70 ads.