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Pollard Theatre


2008 Photo from the Adam Martin collection.
118 W Harrison Ave
Guthrie OK 73044

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Record #8831  
 Opened: 1919
Capacity: 854 seats
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Current Organ: none
 Also Known As: Melba
 Previously operated by: Griffith Theatres, Video Independent Theatres, Martin Theatres

Information for this tour was contributed by Ann Clark.

Built in 1901 as the Patterson Furniture Store. In 1919, George A. Pollard purchased the building and converted it into a vaudeville house.

It ran vaudeville shows and silent films until 1929, when it was refurbished to show talkies. The theatre was then rechristened the Melba, after a local citizen's daughter and hailed as Oklahoma's first all-sound motion picture theatre. The Powell family, now owners of Guthrie's drive-in theatre, operated the Melba until 1986.

The latest renovation of the building began in January 1986, with over $500,000 donated by private industry and foundations and a $120,000 Urban Development Grant. This renovation provided a home for Oklahoma's resident professional theatre company.

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May 2008 photos from the Adam Martin collection.


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