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===================== WELL THIS IS WHERE IT ALL STARTED SEPTEMBER 26, 1910 THE NEW CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL OPENED ON DAYTON AND "E" STREETS THE PICTURE SHOWS CONTRUCTION ALMOST COMPLETED. LITTLE DID ANY ONE KNOW BACK THEN THAT THE THREE BEST YEARS THE SCHOOL WAS OPEN WOULD BE 1957,1958, 1959, FANTLEY KILLEBREW CHS CLASS 1959 ================
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**************** THE MOVIE THE BIG CIRCUS STARING RED BUTTONS THAT WAS PLAYING IN 1959 AT THE RITZ THEATRE(SEE PICTURE) IT IS NO LONGER THERE BEEN TORE DOWN, O WELL IF YOU WERE IN THE BALCONY I DOUGHT IF YOU WERE WATCHING THE MOVIE ANY WAY,
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In 1970 while attending college in Warner, OK, the group I ran with regularly went to see movies at the Muskogee Ritz, a grand theater indeed. The lobby was four stories high, with three clover shaped mezzanine balconies overlooking the main floor, topped by a fancy clover shaped dome.
The auditorium was most ornate, and also had a massive round dome overhead. Stage drapery appeared to be original, heavy emerald green valour, with dozens of gigantic gold tassels running along the bottom portion of the curtains. Valances formed graceful scallops with heavy gold fringe. It was a sad day when I learned that this lovely theatre had been razed.
Lauren Durbin
Lauren Durbin on April 14, 2007 at 1:48 pm
This theater opened in the teens as the Hinton Theater. It featured touring stage shows, magicians and musicians. It was later bought by Fred Turner and the name was changed to the Orpheum. In 1925, it was sold to George Proctor and Hugh Marsh and the name was again changed to the Ritz. It operated as a vaudeville house until 1928 when it was equipped to show talkies. The legendary Tom Mix visited the theater in 1929.
Due to style similarities this theatre was probably designed by famed architect Joseph Foucart who migrated in 1889 to Indian Territory from Paris, France.
Foucart created Brooks Opera House, Guthrie, OK.
This article from the Muskogee Phoenix says that the Hinton Theatre was built in 1905, was renamed the Orpheum in 1920. It doesn’t give the year the name Ritz was adopted, but it must have been by 1929, as the article says that Procter and Marsh, who renamed the house after taking it over and remodeling, introduced talking pictures at the Ritz. The name Ritz was definitely in use by February, 1930, when it was mentioned in a newspaper item.
The house was still called the Orpheum at least as late as January, 1928, when a production of Phillip Duning and George Abbott’s play Broadway was mounted there by the authors. The Library of Congress has a copy of the program for the production, but it hasn’t been digitized.
Joe Vogel
The 1929 edition of The Film Daily Yearbook included the Ritz in Muskogee in its list of new theaters for 1928, so that must be the year the name was changed.
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- (9) "Also, their music drives me wild. This 'Rock Around The Clock' thing is nothing but racket."
- (10) "I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying 'damn' in 'Gone With The Wind,' it seems every movie has a 'hell' or a 'damn' in it."
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- (12) "Marilyn Monroe is now showing her bra and panties, so apparently there are no standards anymore."
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- (35) "Cars which dim their lights by sensors, automatic transmissions, and who knows what else? Pretty soon they will drive themselves."
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