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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 19/06/2026 22:34:00

An Art Deco landmark with a soaring neon sign along an original stretch of Route 66, the Tower Theatre opened on 15 July 1937 as one of Oklahoma City's first suburban movie houses. Designed by the prolific theatre architect W. Scott Dunne, its ornate 1,500-seat auditorium boasted a full working stage, a pipe organ housed in an orchestra pit and billowing scarlet waterfall stage curtains, a touch of glamour for the Uptown 23rd Street neighbourhood. For nearly four decades the Tower operated as o...