Oasis Drive-In
6300 N. Brady Street,
Davenport,
IA
52806
6300 N. Brady Street,
Davenport,
IA
52806
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The Oasis Drive-In opened September 1, 1961 with Michael Gough in “Konga” & Gerald Mohr in “The Angry Red Planet”. This drive-in closed in August of 1987.
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1970 aerial added in photo section.
This opened on September 1st, 1961. The grand opening ad is in the photo section.
The site is now an office equipment building(Katun).
As described in a two-page spread in the July 9, 1962 issue of Boxoffice, the Oasis had a straight 500-foot driveway from the highway to the boxoffice. But when traffic was heavy, they’d reroute cars through a 350-foot hairpin driveway to then pass through the same boxoffice in the other direction.
Opened with “The angry red planet” and “Konga”.
Cold nights at the Oasis
Cold nights at the Oasis drive in 21 Jan 1975, Tue Quad-City Times (Davenport, Iowa) Newspapers.com
The 1963 Assumption High School yearbook included a short story about junker car giveaways at the Oasis. One was a 1951 Nash, which the recipient had to push home. Another was a 1950 Dodge, for that, the winner elected to accept a $40 prize instead.