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  • <p>It’s March 19, 1954 and the Motor-Vu makes news in the trades for converting to CinemaScope. Local patrons fill the 900-car ozoner for “The Robe” on the 102' by 48' screen.</p>
  • <p>Carl Peterson of the Motor-Vu Drive-In shown here in the living area below the screen in 1949</p>
  • <p>From page 7 of the July 15, 1958 Salt Lake Tribune.</p>
  • <p>From the Aug. 20, 1958 edition of the Salt Lake Tribune, although the same ad also ran for several days before. Not my copyright, of course.</p>
  • <p>The Oak Hills opened on July 21, 1951 with “American Guerrilla”</p>
  • <p>Opened June 5, 1947 with “Northwest Mounted Police”.</p>
  • <p>October 23, 1955</p>
  • <p>Boxoffice, 3/11/74.</p>
  • <p>Boxoffice, 2/17/69.</p>
  • <p>Boxoffice, 2/16/70.</p>
  • <p>1968 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>This is Tazwell’s other theatre, a letter from the Cumberland Theatre which has just switched to sound using Tone-o-Graph equipment.</p>
  • <p>Grand Opening ad for what would become the East, from the Denver Post of July 4, 1947. Not my copyright, of course, and possibly in the public domain.</p>
  • <p>Tommy Hall’S Horseshoe Drive-In opens March 16, 1950 with “My Wild Irish Rose.”</p>
  • <p>September 20, 1962</p>
  • <p>Old photos found in the attic and beginning to deteriorate.   Taken of the Horse Shoe Drive in Ballinger, Texas about 1975</p>
  • <p> The H & H Drive-In Theatre launches September 29, 1949 with Henry Fonda in “Trail of the Lonesome Pine.”</p>
  • <p>United Cinemas 14 Leghorn Street, Rockingham, WA.</p>
            
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  • <p>United Cinemas 14 Leghorn Street, Rockingham, WA.</p>
            
              <p>Showmanship classic style *</p>
            
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  • <p>United Cinemas 14 Leghorn Street, Rockingham, WA</p>
            
              <p>The Picture Garden at dusk *</p>
            
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  • <p>United Cinemas 14 Leghorn Street, Rockingham, WA.</p>
            
              <p>A welcome return to the Picture Gardens of the past.</p>
            
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