Cozy Theatre
Hollis,
OK
73550
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The Cozy Theatre was built in 1928.
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Searching google maps (street view) on 8th & Broadway, any of those commercial building could have once housed a small cinema.
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Open ~1930? Can anyone verify the exact dates?
Could use an address or crossroads, more info and photos always welcome.
The April 14, 1928, issue of Motion Picture News said:
In my research about Reproduco organs I’ve got a listing from 1926 for the Cozy Theatre in Hollis, OK. That implies the 1928 hall was the second Cozy in town. To my ear, the name Cozy seems an unusual name for a theatre, but I’m finding a number of halls scattered around the mid-west with that name. Were they part of chain? In Joe’s link I see a reference to G.A. Peterson. Local developer? Theatre chain executive?
This Cozy doesn’t appear to have been part of a chain. An item about G. A. Peterson appeared in the July 1, 1927, issue of Motion Picture News that suggests he only operated in Hollis:
Cozy appears to have been a fairly popular name for theaters at one time, but I don’t know of any chain of them. There was an independently operated Cozy Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles at least as late as the 1960s. It was a tiny grind house on Broadway. I never went to it, but it had one of my favorite downtown marquees.