Brownie's Drive-In

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Listowel resident and Dairyman Bob Marshall opened Huron County’s first drive-in theater on June 26, 1952 with June Haver in “The Daughter of Rosie O'Grady” along with an unnamed cartoon and a newsreel. This started life as the Llashmar Drive-In.

Marshall operated the theater until the husband-and-wife team of Lorne and Margaret Brown took over the theater and was renamed Brownie’s Drive-In on April 26, 1956, relaunching with Gregory Peck in “Purple Plain” along with an unnamed cartoon. For the next 32 years afterward, the Brownie’s was a family business, and during its later years, Lorne and Margaret’s son, Steve, and his sons operated the drive-in until its final closure on September 5, 1988.