Coleman Theatre
103 N. Main Street,
Miami,
OK
74354
103 N. Main Street,
Miami,
OK
74354
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This theatre was seen on the DVD Route 66: Marathon tour Chicago to L.A.
5+ minute Vimeo link about the Coleman Theatre that surfaced on Facebook.
https://vimeo.com/329747906?fbclid=IwAR3otmCMQoQQvsW3zSL6QffNUziPXuYvsLavrB_YmguMZ6avaK80kNqH0J8
I’d sure like to see many more theatres receive this treatment.
1941 photo added via the Vintage St. Louis & Route 66 Facebook page.
There is a picture of the Coleman Theatre in the book Legendary Route 66 (page 135).
1930 photo added, courtesy of the AmeriCar The Beautiful Facebook page.
April 18th, 1929 grand opening ad in photo section.
My timing was exact enough to enable me to have a guided tour of the Coleman Theatre. The newly cushioned seats (covered in the original fabric) are about 2 inches wider than the originals. Additional leg room was also created between rows so today the
main floor seats just over 600. The balcony seating is not yet complete and I forgot to ask about the estimated seating capacity.
This is one of nicest restoration of a theatre in the thousand seat range that I’ve seen. The citizens of Miami should be both praised and applauded for the effort and expense they’ve endured. This is one theatre to definitely see so add it to your bucket list today.
These web pages have vintage and modern photos of the Coleman Theatre, including interior shots
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/449
Here is a May 1947 ad from the Miami News-Record:
http://tinyurl.com/yzlzj95
A recent article about the Coleman with an interior picture: View link
Here’s a street view of the Colemann Theater. The map link above does not bring you to the right main st in Miami, it brings you to Main St in Commerce for some reason, but if you pan down, you can find Main St in Miami, a TOTALLY different looking town!
Anyway, here’s the street view at N Main St and 1st Ave in Miami:
View link
Here is a December 1936 ad from the Miami Daily News-Record. The same issue advertised the New Baxter Theater in Baxter Springs, KS. I didn’t see that one listed, so if anyone wants to add it feel free.
http://tinyurl.com/o3qgpa
We were at the theatre in August 2007. We were told that Ghost Hunters were coming in the fall. Did that ever happen?
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/cbl86l
Here is a photo, circa 1951:
http://tinyurl.com/3vllyj
Last night Kansas City’s PBS Station, KCPT 19, aired a 30 minute documentary about the Coleman Theater. It is available for purchase here: http://www.rsupublictv.org/shop.htm
1987 photos of the Coleman Theater here and here.
These rare vintage images are the best yet, to see these fantastic views type in word “coleman”, then search -
View link
This link leads to an Oklahoma Today Magazine article written about the Coleman, with good color pictures. On this link navigate to Oklahoma Today issue Vol 41, #1, Jan, 1991-
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/
Original scenery for the Coleman was created by Great Western Stage Equipment Company-
http://digital.lib.umn.edu/scenery/index.html
Miami is one of my planned overnights on my Route 66 trip this summer. The itinerary from Los Angeles includes overnights in Kingman and Winslow AZ, Grants and Santa Rosa NM, Amarillo TX, El Reno and Miami OK, Rolla and St. Louis MO, and Chicago. This is about two hundred miles a day on the Mother Road.
Here are some photos of the Coleman from a Route 66 website:
http://tinyurl.com/fabrn
Explore this fun website for interesting Coleman pix -
http://www.agilitynut.com/theatres/ok.html
Picher (Ottawa County), Oklahoma theater photos.
ELECTRIC THEATER;
http://www.homestead.com/schehrer2/Picher32.html
PLAZA and ROXY THEATERS;
http://www.homestead.com/schehrer2/theaters1.html
GRAND THEATER image-
http://www.homestead.com/schehrer2/Miami13.html