Linda Drive-In
712 Palm Avenue,
Palatka,
FL
32177
712 Palm Avenue,
Palatka,
FL
32177
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The Linda Drive-In was opened by 1960. It was part of the Floyd Theatres chain. Car capacity was listed at 400 for this single screen ozoner.
The Linda Drive-In closed in 1990 and later demolished. It is now a cemetery.
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If you go due NW from the red marker pin on the map above, there is an open field divided into 8 rectangles. You can still make out the fanned out rows, and the building in the center of the field is in the same exact spot at the old projection booth, and I would assume snack bar. Likely it’s the same building.
April 1995 view shows it to be on it’s way to being a cemetery already.
Video from 1997: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8eBAuUpZOA
Video from 1997
I bet people are dieing to go there now it is a cemetary?
Was it named after someone called Linda?
Boxoffice, Jan. 25, 1960: “Adelaide Gawthrop, Palatka exhibitor who is now hospitalized, has leased her Linda Drive-In, Palatka, to Floyd Stowe, local theatrical broker”
Boxoffice, June 27, 1960: “Floyd Stowe, local booker for independents, has relinquished some of his accounts in order to move to Palatka to manage his Linda Drive-In, which he acquired from Mrs. Adelaide Gawthrop.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 4, 1963: “The Linda Drive-In at Palatka, now operated by Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Stowe, was scheduled to become a unit of the MCM Theatres circuit of central Florida February 3. The Stowes plan to Atlanta, their former home.”