Fox IV Theater

I worked with Blake Smith at the Fox 4 Cinemas for a time as projectionist. I really admire how they were able to take the twin theater and make it into 4 screens. The twins were simply cut right down the middle length wise and theaters with about 100 or so seats were created. It was a rather nice second-run house.

The theater itself was never actually demolished. The building itself still stands today, only as a gym.

Here is a late 1960’s photo of the Fox Theatre marquee as it originally stood to advertise a single screen, 2000 seat theatre.
http://www.tulsalibrary.org/JPG/B8207.jpg

Thanks guys for the great ad 2001,and the pictures. Real Theatres,my friends,not 20 plexes!

Opened on November 23rd, 1966 with Chill Wills in person. Grand opening ad posted. It reopened with 2 screens on December 25th, 1975.

National General and Fox Midwest teamed to launch the Fox Country Club Plaza Theatre on November 23, 1966 with “Alfie.” A May 1966 court ruling had allowed the arrangement after antitrust / competitive practices issues had been raised by competitors. The Country Club Plaza also opened in 1966 with a Humpty Dumpty grocer, Skaggs Drug Store, and the Fox Country Club Plaza Theatre. On April 3, 1973, Mann Theatres acquired National General’s 240 locations and, effective on June 29, 1973, Mann operated the cinema under the Mann Fox Plaza Theatre banner. Mann closed the venue temporarily in 1975 to twin the venue. It became the Mann Fox Twins on Christmas Day 1975.

On June 22, 1984, General Cinema Corporation circuit took over the venue as the Fox Cinema I & II in a trade of locations with Mann . On September 12, 1991, GCC renamed the venue as the Fox Dollar Cinema downgrading it to a sub-run one dollar discount house. GCC left the venue behind at the end of a leasing period on April 30, 1992. A year later, the twins were twinned becoming a four-plex that operated as the Fox IV Theatre from August 6, 1993 to its permanent closure on September 30, 1998.