Quail Twin Theatre
10950 N. May Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73132
10950 N. May Avenue,
Oklahoma City,
OK
73132
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The Quail Twin Theatre was opened December 20, 1968 with Dick Van Dyke in “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang” and Tony Curtis in “The Boston Strangler”. It was operated by the Entertainment Theatres chain. It was closed in February 1974 when the chain collapsed. It was reopened by Commonwealth Theatres on August 7, 1974 with Fred Astaire in “That’s Entertainment!” & Peter Breck in “Benji”. It closed in 1988.
A Laser Quest operates from this address today.
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I saw the first run of WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY there in ‘71, EARTHQUAKE (in Sensurround), YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN in '72, and many, many more. I remember seeing Danny Williams in the lobby too. Just sayin’!
Earthquake and Young Frankenstein came out in 1974.
Once I saw a first rate (mid ‘70s) photo of this theatre snapped by Jeff Chapman. Wish he would allow it to be posted because it demonstrates just how classy this cinema really was.
Roadside Oklahoma web page has modern photos of the former Quail Twin Cinema. Looks like the lobby is now a bagel shop.
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/508
Sorry, but this was not built on the site of the old Twilight Gardens. Twilight was at May & Britton. Quail was at Hefner & Britton.
Laser Quest only has one of the auditoriums. The other has been converted into some sort of garage.
I used to see many films here. Very nice. I remember seeing Star Trek: The Motion Picture on opening night here.
I was the final manager of the theater. It closed in 1988, not 1985. At the time it closed, it had the last 70mm projector in town.
This opened on December 20th, 1968.
Quail Twin Theatre opening Fri, Dec 20, 1968 – 15 · The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) · Newspapers.com
Closed in February 1974 after the collapse of the Entertainment theatres chain and reopened by Commonwealth Theatres on August 7th, 1974. Grand opening ad posted.