Paramount Theatre
110 W. Main Street,
Ardmore,
OK
73401
110 W. Main Street,
Ardmore,
OK
73401
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The La Pictorial Theatre was opened prior to 1914. On January 3, 1933 it reopened as the Paramount Theatre. It typically showed re-runs. The Paramount Theatre was still open in 1957.
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Listed in Film Daily Yearbook edition’s 1940 to 1950
No argument can be made that Paramount operated some of the most opulent movie palaces. It can also be said that they profited from some really crappy small theatres too, like this relic from the nickelodeon era that somehow lasted until TV put it out of business.
On this site type in word “paramount” to see vintage pix.
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It is believed, by this author, that the Paramount Theatre listed as bing in Altus was actualy the one located in Bristow.
Period images of the former Paramount Theatre can be viewed;
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/driveinsok
Here is what the former Paramount Theatre looks like today, now a bar.
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So sorry, the Paramount is now Marquis Furniture.
Listings 1933-1934, 1941-1950
Nice box office anyway. Funky entrance. Like the Last Picture Show.
Here’s something from the July 19, 1910, issue of The Daily Ardmoreite:
However, the stay of the Majestic at this location was not permanent. The 1914-15 edition of the American Motion Picture Directory lists La Pictorial at 110 Main Street once again, while the Majestic has decamped to 219 W. Main.La Pictorial is also mentioned, along with three other Ardmore houses, in the October 9, 1909, issue of The New York Dramatic Mirror: