Murray Theater
323 SW C Avenue,
Lawton,
OK
73501
323 SW C Avenue,
Lawton,
OK
73501
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The Murray Theater was opened by 1918. It was still open in 1957.
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Listed with varying seating capacities in editions of Film Daily Yearbook; 1940 and 1943=500. In the 1950 edition of F.D.Y. the seating capacity is given as 300.
Here is a May 1956 ad from the Lawton Constitution:
http://tinyurl.com/yje3zfl
The building at the current location looks like a typical seventies retail strip. Not sure if the theater is still around.
Here is what the neighborhood looks like nowadays,
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Listings stopped in 1961 for this cinema.
burnt down in 1961, fire started in furniture store next door. sprinkler system did not help, you were allowed to smoke in theater. it was a shotgun house. call 580-379-0362, Ron Duncan
The Murray Theatre at Lawton, Oklahoma, was mentioned in the August 17, 1918 issue of The Moving Picture World. The house must have been in operation for several years by then, as the chapter “The Devil Worshipers” of the serial Exploits of Elaine, in the ad for the Murray on our photo page, was released on December 28, 1914.