Bowl Drive-In
Salisbury,
MD
21801
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I don’t think this was in Danville, or Ringgold, or even called the “Owl”, but rather if you look closely, the Bowl Drive-In, which was in Salisbury, MD (the ads on that theater’s page show an identical logo design). This appears to be a montage of horror-movie ads from different newspaper issues (note the differing “Now!” features at the Crescent DI), not all of them from Danville papers.
The Owl Drive-In was definitely not the Crescent Drive-In. In fact, it wasn’t even in Danville!
Checking the zip code “24586”— not a Danville zip code— shows the Owl Drive-In was actually in Ringgold, VA. Ringgold is a smaller town in Pittsylvania Co. about 20 minutes' drive from Danville.
I grew up in Danville and was living there and avidly going to movies during this period, and I don’t recall this theater at all.
I suspect this ad grouping was separate ads representative of theaters in that area from some point in 1973, but doesn’t actually reproduce a movie listing page from one of the Danville papers.
Otherwise, the Owl only advertised in Danville briefly enough that I’ve completely forgotten it existed 40 years later.
There is an ad for the Owl on the far right with the Crescent at the top left. Two different theaters, I think.