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Mon, 02.02.1920

The Aldridge Theater, (Oklahoma City) Opens

Aldridge Theater

*The Aldridge Theater opened on this date in 1920. It was a black-owned business in Oklahoma City, OK. It opened with Sam De Grasse in “Blind Husbands.” It initially presented vaudeville and movies.

It was part of the TOBA chain of Black-owned theatres owned by Zelia Breaux. In the late 1920s, Count Basie and Gonzelle White’s band played there. From the 1940s through the 1950s, it was a movie theatre, having dropped live performances.

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