Gem Theatre

You’re correct, Sir, regarding that building being much too small. Google maps are always a few numbers off on the exact address. Perhaps the Gem Theatre sat a couple of doors to the left, or on that now vacant lot to the right.
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The Gem was operated by my Grandfather, Troy Combs. Built in the early 1920’s it no longer exists. There is now a vacant lot where it once stood.

My father, Harold Combs, born in 1926 and my mother, Joanna Barton was born the previous day. My father’s family operated the Gem theater in Davenport and my mother’s family operated the Cozy theater in Stroud. Both small town theater owners from neighboring towns, they shared runs into Oklahoma City for films and supplies so my parents were thrown together in their cribs as both sets of grandparents became colleagues and even competitors. My parents were married after WWII and my father eventually went to work for the Bartons.

The Gem didn’t last and Troy Combs went on to become the Davenport Postmaster, while the Barton theater chain expanded from Stroud to Oklahoma City and beyond.

When you look at a map of Davenport it shows the street at Broadway Avenue, no north or south, just Broadway.