Metro Theater
115 W. Main Street,
Purcell,
OK
73080
115 W. Main Street,
Purcell,
OK
73080
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A conversion of a retail building in 1935, the Metro Theater was operated by the Metcalf family. It was closed on December 12, 1940 and it returned to retail use.
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Listed as open in the 1941 edition of Film Daily Yearbook with a seating capacity of 300. By the 1943 edition of F.D.Y. it is listed as 300 seats(Closed) and has gone from the listings in 1950.
roadsideoklahoma link has color pictures, http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/617
Levi and W.D. Metcalf converted the retail Ambrister Building (aka George Schwartz Building) at 115 West Main Street in downtown Purcell to the Metro Theatre in 1935. The 300-seat theater was a discount house run in conjunction with Metcalf’s Ritz to blunt the competition from Pearl Dooley’s Dooley Theatre. The Metro opened on August 23, 1935 with Buzz Barton in “Saddle Aces” supported by the Clyde Beatty serial, “The Lost Jungle” and a comedy short.
The Metcalfs would buy out the Dooley Theatre converting it to the McClain Theatre opening it on December 13, 1940. The Metro was closed the night before on December 12, 1940 with Sidney Toler in “Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum.” The building was converted to Cobb’s Grocery Store.
The Metro was a reverse theatre. When you entered your back was to the screen.