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  • <p>June 1970</p>
  • <p>1970</p>
  • <p>August 1970</p>
  • <p>1959</p>
  • <p>April 13th, 1962 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>1953</p>
  • <p>Starlite Drive In was on the site of the current Sunset Drive In.  It burned down in the early sixty’s.</p>
  • <p>Every month the theaters would mail out a calendar of movies coming that month.</p>
  • <p>Opening announced in the Blue Ridge Post-Summit newspaper dated 29 June 1950.</p>
  • <p>Entrance was in Arnside St not Walworth Rd. Bombed in 1941 & never reopened</p>
  • <p>Doubleview Open Air Gardens, Muriel Avenue, Woodlands, WA – Opened 1954, later to become Acme Gardens in 1956 – Closed 1960.</p>
            
              <p>EXTRACT – Sunday Times newspaper 29 August 1954</p>
            
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  • <p>Doubleview Open Air Gardens, Muriel Avenue, Woodlands, WA – Opened 1954, later to become Acme Gardens in 1956 – Closed 1960.</p>
            
              <p>EXTRACT – West Australian Newspaper Wed 25 August 1954, page 7</p>
            
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  • <p>Decatur Drive-In Grand Opening night with 2,000 cars coming but not enough spaces for them to watch “Pardon My Sarong” with Abbott & Costello on this night, July 30, 1948.</p>
  • <p>April 15th, 1949 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>It’s July 28, 1950 and time for the second Decatur drive-in to launch. They’ll have “The Nevadan” and “Adventure in Baltimore.”</p>
  • <p>Changes in 1955 included a Mancovision aluminum screen and widescreen presentation to accommodate CinemaScope and other widescreen film formats.</p>
  • <p>Updated Photo with description.</p>
  • <p>August 19th, 1947</p>
  • <p>Holiday info courtesy of Karen Eifler.</p>
  • <p>Copyright: Friends of the Boyd, Inc.</p>