Ritz Theatre
307 W. Chickasha Avenue,
Chickasha,
OK
73018
307 W. Chickasha Avenue,
Chickasha,
OK
73018
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Opened On September 27, 1928.
October 1935 photo added credit Griffith Amusement Company Collection 21500.42.1, courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society.
This link has a version of the 1941 photo that can bee enlarged.
http://picclick.com.au/OLD-LARGE-HISTORIC-PHOTO-OF-CHICKASHA-KANSAS-OPENING-291952014744.html#&gid=1&pid=1
1941 photo added, courtesy of Billy Ray Merritt‎. It is the left building of the two that M & M Furniture currently inhabits. 307 W. Chickasha is the correct address for the Ritz.
M & M uses 309, because their entrance is in the right hand building, next door to where the Ritz was. As they now have a combined storefront.
A theatre was at the location described above after 1928 according to fire insurance maps. Address is 307 W. Chickasha.
Though Chickasha has many theaters listed at Cinema Treasures, the only one I can find mentioned in the Boxoffice archive is the Rialto, which is either not listed here or is listed under another name and missing its aka. A Rialto is listed for Chickasha at both CinemaTour and Roadside Oklahoma, but without an address.
The brief Boxoffice item, from October 9, 1954, says that Rialto manager Horace Clark had re-roofed the building, and had installed CinemaScope and 300 reconditioned seats.
Standing two doors left of the former Pix Theatre, and across the street from the old Midwest Theatre, the Ritz Theatre has now been converted into M & M Furniture sales,
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To vew both recent color snapshots and vintage B&W images of the former Ritz Theatre see site below;
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/277
Type in word “ritz” to view 1930s images,
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