Star Theater
114 N. Main Street,
Sand Springs,
OK
74063
114 N. Main Street,
Sand Springs,
OK
74063
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The Star Theater was opened in 1918. It was later given a Streamline Moderne style makeover. It was closed on July 13, 1957. It reopened and continued until the early-1970’s.
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Yes, Great pictures,All. Thanks for getting them on.
I wonder who is the man in the photo posted by Miss Melba Toast 9/9/07??????
I didn’t realize that when the 09-09-07 Star Theatre picture was posted that Tulsa Library constantly changes images. Sorry!
When I was three, I walked downtown from 6th street to my uncle’s barber shop next door to the Star. He would cut my hair and give me 20 cents change. I would go next door to the Star and for 10 cents would watch movies and eat candy and popcorn until I couldn’t. Then I would walk across the street past the “Rathole” to my aunts cafe, Bob’s Cafe. I’d sit on the counter and talk to the customers. Many would not be able to pay so my aunt put their ticket in a Roi-Tan cigar box. When they had some money, they would come in and she would pull their tickets out of the cigar box and they’d pay their bill. those were the days, when a three year old could walk around without any reason to fear.
Judging from the interior photos linked earlier, I’d have guessed that the Star Theatre had at least 600 seats. The side section in this photo shows at least 28 rows with six seats per row, so the two side sections alone must have seated over 300, and the center section was probably about the size of the two side sections put together. Perhaps they removed every other row sometime late in the theater’s history.
In 1939,I took my first date to the Star theater. I was seven years old and she was six. I remember, we shared a popcorn and each had a drink. I don’t remember what the movie was about but I do remember how pretty my date was.
Used to go to this theater more often than to the Harmony. In junior high my girl friends and I would go on Saturday afternoons and see the serials they ran and then the feature movie. When they ran horror movies, I’d hide under my coat or sweater and my friends would let me know when it was A&E to watch again…sometimes…other times they’d tell my it was OK when it wasn’t. They got a big kick from that.
Newspaper ads begin in 1918 and cease July 13, 1957
Contrary to information posted here, The Star operated through the 1960s, and sporadically in the early 1970s. Admission was 35 cents for us kids in the mid and late 1960s.
The Star and Harmony are both included in the book Tulsa Movie Theaters, published in 2021.