Forum Theater
202 E. Choctaw Avenue,
McAlester,
OK
74501
202 E. Choctaw Avenue,
McAlester,
OK
74501
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Once I saw a vintage photo of McAlester’s Forum Theater when it was featuring a silent picture entitled “The Awakening” which was distributed sometime around 1917. So this movie house was in operation prior to that date.
Shown in the link below is a rather morbid image of the Forum Theater with those horse drawn hearse parked out front. Don’t know whether or not this was a publicity gimmick, so I asked several old timers if there was ever a funeral parlor nearby to this theater, but nobody could recall.
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Jeff Chapman
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Click here to view above mentioned vintage photograph-
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Wrong again. TRY this link-
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McAlester Public Library has provided the correct address for the Forum Theatre, it was at 202 East Choctaw Avenue. A law firm now occupies this location.
On google maps at the top of this page, using the correct address of 202 E. Choctaw Ave., McAlester, OK 74501-5026 there is a fine image of the former Forum Theatre (now Marilynn’s Boutique). The look of the building has hardly changed through all these years. The V Theatre can also be seen three doors East of the Forum.
Further material regarding the Forum Theatre can be found on this web site,
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/441
From google maps link comes this modern day street view of the former Forum Theatre, now (Marilyn’s Boutique),
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