Showcase Twin
5370 NW Cache Road,
Lawton,
OK
73505
5370 NW Cache Road,
Lawton,
OK
73505
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Grand opening ad
Showcase Cinema opening 24 Oct 1969, Fri The Lawton Constitution (Lawton, Oklahoma) Newspapers.com
This also appears to be a nearly identical theatre to the Loft Theatre in Tucson, AZ which was originally named Showcase and also had a second screen built upstairs called “The Penthouse”
An article in the 1/17/1974 edition of the Lawton Constitution reported that Video Independent Theatres had purchased the theatre from Transcontinental on that day.
Ted Horton of Lawton architected the $500,000 theater, Lawton’s first since 1947, to be operated by the Tanscontinental Theatres Circuit. It was designed as a road show house with continental seating for 600, 70mm projection capability, and a 22x50' screen. “Funny Girl” opened the single screener on October 24, 1969.
October 24th, 1969 and July 8th, 1970 grand opening ads in the photo section. The 2nd cinema was known as the Penthouse 1970-1972.
The building has been demolished. Summer 2013.
Great Ad,looks like they were big on Double features.
Here is an August 1973 ad from the Lawton Constitution:
http://tinyurl.com/p5cd5c
Ironically, this building appears to be a Blockbuster Video now. The building looks new from the street, but it has the highest cielings I’ve ever seen in a Blockbuster and there is a portion of a rear wall that is brick painted to match the beige Dryvit exterior of the rest of the building
The Showcase was built by Lippert Theatres as a single screen. A very small second screen—sorta’ve a screening room—was added over the lobby at a later date. The main auditorium had a curved screen and was designed in the “roadshow” tradition of the day.