Bowline Drive-In
US 31 South,
Decatur,
AL
35603
US 31 South,
Decatur,
AL
35603
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From the screen to the marquee, the Bowline Drive-In featured a bow as its signature. This was a first-run drive-in theatre in Decatur, Alabama. It operated from the 1950’s through the late-1970’s. The site is now being developed as a shopping center.
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Photo is totally wrong! How can it be changed?
The Street View is wrong indeed. Louisville, Kentucky is a long way from Decatur, Alabama. Fixing Google Maps' error will probably require getting a correct address for the Bowline Drive-In.
The entry for Marietta, Georgia, architect Cleve Cail, Jr. in the 1956 edition of the AIA’s American Architects Directory lists the Bowline Drive-In as one of his projects, and notes that was then under construction. It gives the location of the project as Albertville, Alabama, but this comment by Theatrespawn on the Gateway 5 Theatre page says that the Bowline was owned by W. W. Hammonds & Co., which was headquartered in Albertville. Cail apparently listed the location of the company building the theater rather than the location of the project itself.
Approx. address of this drive-in was 2604 U.S. 31.