Hoo-Hoo Theatre
118 East Main Street,
Gurdon,
AR
71743
118 East Main Street,
Gurdon,
AR
71743
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1986 photo of the Hoo Hoo Theatre. Who in the world came up with this name.
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This theatre should be listed as closed/Demolished. Address 118 E. Main St. Now First Security Bank.
Opened in the latter part of 1926, closed in late 1950’s (1957 ?)
An item datelined Gurdon, Ark., in the January 13, 1940, issue of Boxoffice was headed “The Hoo-Hoo Bows” and gave the opening date as January 4. The house had recently been purchased by K. Lee Williams, and had previously been called the Wright Theatre.
Incidentally, not only has the Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, from which this theater’s name was derived, outlasted the theater, it even has a web site.
It now occurs to me that, long ago, I saw a vintage postcard of a building called the Hoo-Hoo that was at one of the world’s fairs- probably San Francisco’s in 1915. I remember wondering then what it was, as the card had no explanatory details. Now I realize it was probably operated by this organization.
A special event took place at the Hoo-Hoo Theatre in 1940. The September 7 issue of Boxoffice announced it:
Info from Ken Roe, in 1941 this theatre was part of the K. Lee Willilams Theatre Chain.
Only in Arkansas.
Here is a postcard:
http://tinyurl.com/y9zpgth
2009 Photo of the Hoo Hoo
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Interesting name.