Circle Cinema Theatre
10 S. Lewis Avenue,
Tulsa,
OK
74104
10 S. Lewis Avenue,
Tulsa,
OK
74104
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The Circle was acquired by the Circle Cinema Foundation in 2003 and has been undergoing restoration since.
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Phillip Dail
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This is a May 2008 photo.
All the way up to 1967 the Circle Theatre always included a newsreel on the program. Universal News were the last to be shown.
Note in the 1987 photo, when the Circle was a skin flick house, how carefully “parking in back” was worded. Perhaps some dumb patron would have mistaken “parkinng in rear” as a title for an X-rated film. On second thought, that probably was a real porno title.
Miss Melba Toast…your observation and comment has given me a belly laugh!
Don…
And I remember and miss the newsreels….wonder if they ever ran those in the skin flicks?
Don…
Here is another photo of the Circle Cinema.
Did the Rollier & Meta Theatre’s mentioned above as owned by old okie’s parents, ever get added to CT?
I couldn’t find either listed even in a previous names or city search. Just curious.
1985 photo of the Circle Theatre.
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There are no theatres in Lamont on CT other than the Drive-In. Also I believe that this is a photo of the theatre that LM was tlaking about. The R is clearly on the front of the Marquee. This link lists the theatre as the Metro in Lamont. So is this or is it not the Meta Theatre that Okie is talking about? I am sure it is the one that LM is talking about.
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This is a 2009 photo.
The Circle Theatre opened on July 15, 1928. The first movie was “Across The Atlantic”. The cost of constructing the theatre was around $62,000 which did not include the cost of the organ. The organ was a 2 manual, 4 rank, Robert Morton cosing around $15,000.