Oakdale Theater - Hazel Park Michigan

 
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 Oakdale Theater 

Name: Oakdale Theater   Street: 8 Mile and Dequindre
City: Hazel Park    State: MI    Zip:      Phone:  
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County: Oakland Operator: Unknown
Open: N/A Closed: N/A Capacity:   Status: Closed
Web Address: N/A
Number of visits to this page since February 23, 2007: 3022
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Entry Date: 2/20/2010 - Bill Simpson: I remember my feet always sticking to the floor from all the dropped candy and being afraid to go into the bath room where guys were always hanging out smoking.
The screen also had holes in it where people had thrown things into it.
Entry Date: 1/11/2010 - paul b.: I attended the Oakdale in the mid to late fifties and it was fifteen cents to get in if you were under 12. I spent a lot of saturdays there watching Elvis movies and others of that period. I especially remember West Side Story. My parents would give me a quarter, fifteen cents to get in and two boxes of root beer barrels that were a nickel apiece. One for each movie of the double feature. There was also a barber shop on this block and also a bar called the oakdale bar.
Entry Date: 5/9/2009 - John: Nice to see this on the internet, but it stated it costed .25 cents to get in but it really only cost .15 cents if you were 12 or under and .50 cents if you were over 12 years of age.
I know because my mother sent me and my brothers there almost every Saturday.......what a deal!
Also it was on the corner of 8 mile and what is now I-75

Entry Date: 4/3/2009 - ken marshall: 
Late forties early fifties many a saturday and sunday matinee:
A quarter would get you:


l. A
double feature blockbuster,a perils of Pauline serial,
and 4 or 5 cartoons...14 cents.


2. A box of freshly poped popcorn...10 cents.


3. Your choice of either a Mary Jane,Tootsie Pop,or Jaw-
Breaker....1 cent.


4. Out of your mothers hair for 3 or 4 hours.




ALL THIS FOR THE GRAND SUM OF TWENTY-FIVE CENTS!!!!!!
















KM

Elza and Dequindre
Entry Date: 6/3/2007 - Judy Nunley Stewart: I remember a bunch of us kids from Harry Street
going to the Oakdale on Saturday for the matinee.
A buck would get you in and buy popcorn-pop-and candy.
Times were good.......
Entry Date: 11/3/2006 - SSusa: It was on eight mile road and Stephenson Hwy. now I-75
Entry Date: 6/12/2006 - Gene Whisnant: This picture of the theatre brings back a lot of memories. My family moved to this area in 1950, from Arkansas. I would go to the theatre twice a week with my brother every time the movies changed. the tickets cost $.15 for kids, & $.50 ea for adults. In 1959 we moved to the house right next to the theatre parking lot & I would help change the marquee with my friend Harold Borden. I started working there as a doorman, & also cleaned the theatre after school. The doormans job paid around $.35 a hour.
It got to be a rough theatre with the poolhall just across stephenson hwy. the Detroit gangs hang out over there, but we never thought much about it at the time. The Saturday, & Sunday matinees would be packed with Over 800 kids when a Elvis, or Scary Frankenstein
movie was showing.
Entry Date: 11/14/2005 - Tom Cooley: Located on the northwest corner of 8 mile and Stephenson Hwy/Oakland Ave in Hazel Park, next to Oak gas station on the corner.
There was also a dance hall located upstairs next to Dr office next to theater.
I would go to Oakdale every weekend, saw all the classic creature features from the fifties there (too many to name).
A couple of my cousins, lived on Oakland and Winchester (first block south of 8 mile) used to work there also. Have many many memories of that theater.
Entry Date: 8/15/2005 - Harold Rose: You list two Oakdale Theaters, there was not one at 8 Mile and Dequindre only the one at 8 & Oakdale. I
grew up in the general area and used to attend the Oakdale about once a week--couldnt miss the next chapter of the current serial!
Entry Date: 2/25/2005 - Debra: I remember going here with a girlfriend to watch second run of "A Hard Days Night" back in 1966 or so. Only time I had been there. Didnt seem very big and certainly not very classy. Seemed to be going downhill even then.
Entry Date: 9/11/2004 - Stan Smith: This theatre was located on the northwest corner of 8 mi.rd. and Stevenson Hwy. There was what would now be called a"strip Mall" connected to it. My dentist and doctor had offices there on the second floor.The theatre gave out free dishes on Wed. I was there every Sat . and got a candy bar when we left. I lived two blocks So. of there in Det. I75 wiped everything out.
Entry Date: 7/8/2003 - WaterWinterWonderland: This beautiful theatre was located near 8 Mile and Dequindre. Special thanks to P. Stange for the info and picture.
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