Tulsa Movie Theaters is now available! Purchase during museum hours (Tues-Sat, 10-4) or buy online HERE

The Ritz, Orpheum, Majestic, and Rialto are familiar names to many Tulsans who grew up in a time when downtown movie palaces still existed. Others remember the early neighborhood theaters like the Delman, Will Rogers, and the Brook. Those theater memories, and many others, are captured in the new book Tulsa Movie Theaters. 

Tulsa Movie Theaters, published by Arcadia as part of the “Images of America” series, is co-written by the Tulsa Historical Society & Museum and Sand Springs native Steve Clem, who recently retired from Public Radio Tulsa and is also the author of a popular book about Tulsa’s KAKC Radio. According to Clem, “Tulsa had such wonderful movie theaters and now, sadly, most of them are gone. We hope documenting these entertainment houses will help preserve the rich history of Tulsa’s movie theaters for future generations and bring back the readers’ own cinematic memories.”

Tulsa Movie Theaters is filled with extensive information and more than 200 images of movie theaters throughout the Tulsa area. Theaters included range from the earliest, silent-era film houses and glamourous movie palaces to drive-ins, multiplexes, and even current theaters. A number of Tulsans past and present contributed their own memories and memorabilia for the project.