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  • <p>From the front page of the Grapevine Sun, March 1st, 1951. The Drive-In opened March 2nd, 1951. Picture would have been taken late February</p>
  • <p>Opening night as RKO Roosevelt (August 25th, 1937)</p>
  • <p>This is another digital picture, this the poor quality, taken inside the theatre about 3 weeks ago. The town has an annual visit the merchants and register for a turkey, on the generally cold Friday night before Thanksgiving each year. Not a lot of stores left open in town, but the theatre was opened up to the public to show how work was coming along. They want to make it into a “performing arts center”, not sure what that is. They had a few seats set up were giving away popcorn and had cartoons playing on a big TV for kids who would sit still in the cold. I saw none and the heat was not on in the theatre.</p>
  • <p>Pandemic blessings from the Tivoli in April 2020, photo credit Kim Tonry.</p>
  • <p>1951 photo courtesy of the Chicago Past Facebook page.</p>
  • <p>Original water color © Michael Barkman.</p>
  • <p>Photograph courtesy Marcel, who took the photo while on a trip to see “A Chorus Line” in 1989.</p>
  • <p>Circa 1967 and continued for another 20 years after that.</p>
  • <p>Hollywood Theatre’s Dick Hill adds a neon News Flashes area to promote newsreels gaining popularity in East Orange circa 1940.</p>
  • <p>Another View Of The Mario Kart 64 Event At One Of The Screens In ‘96 Or '97.</p>
  • <p>Now I Was Laughing Crazily Hard When I First Saw This 1996 Or 1997 Clip Of Mario Kart 64 Playing At One Of The Screens Here At The Greenwood Plaza.</p>
  • <p>1950 photo courtesy Smug Mug website below.</p> <p>https://sconiers.smugmug.com/The-Struggles-of-the-people-of/</p>
  • <p>screening 70 mm film</p>
  • <p>Local theater lost out in contest (Kenosha News, Friday, March 14, 2014, by James Lawson)</p> <p>Drive-in movie fans and supporters have made efforts to help the industry.</p> <p>Last year, Honda launched a program to provide grants to help drive-in theater operators purchase digital projectors that cost at least $80,000. The Keno submitted an application but was not successful, explained Jeffrey Kohlberg, the theater’s manager.</p> <p>Honda initially awarded five grants, but later added some more.</p> <p>Singer Jimmy Buffett is scheduled to broadcast a June concert on a digital screen in Texas with some of the proceeds going into a fund to help the outdoor theater industry that need to convert to digital.</p>
  • <p>1983 photo credit & courtesy of Derek Stone.</p>