There’s no telling who got all of that or most likely it was trashed. There was an apartment at the base of the screen, and I was told by Ballard that it was filled with movie stills and one sheets. Wave Ballard was a union operator and held the drive-in together doing handiwork like so many projectionists would do. I remember they played "Deliverance" again after "Crooked Man". When I was 16 I saw "Deliverence" and "There Was A Crooked Man" I only recall going there one time as a child and can’t remember the title. The original screen was enlarged to what Skyview projectionist Wave Ballard said in a 1979 interview, "one of the largest outdoor screens east of the Mississippi". A very unusual location for a drive-in theatre in 1953. Boardman, and unlike the Forrest Hills Drive-In in Augusta, it was located in a fairly urban area, most likely within the city limits. I have a 1953 local newspaper which shows the drive-in playing a western, "Short Grass" with Rod Cameron and Johnny Mack Brown. I was happy to find a handful of them made it through the “in-between” period.ĭiscover the full archive on the Library of Congress.The Skyview Drive-In was opened July 12, 1949. When I started this post, I was almost certain that none of these locations would exist anymore. Amazingly this one is still there.īob’s Java Jive, Route 99, Tacoma, Washington, happy to report it’s still there! The Cavalier (“where special people congregate”), 114 Fifth Avenue, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Paul, Minnesota, still there, looking exactly the same! Sammy’s Seafood House, Route 90, Lake Charles, Louisiana ![]() Hat shop, Kihekah Avenue, Pawhuska, OklahomaĪ to Z Video, Cherokee Street, Saint Louis, Missouri Randy’s Campus Theater, Route 90, Tallahassee, Floridaĭixie Drive-In Theater, angle view from left, Route 49, West Helena, Arkansas, 1980, demolished today. Milk Depot gas station, horizontal view, 900 South & 140 East, Salt Lake City, Utah Old gas station, angle 1, Route 175, Odebolt, Iowa Welcome Travelers gas station, New Laredo Highway, San Antonio, Texas Hillborn Top Shop formerly Gates Tires, Washington Place 7 Grandview, Mar Vista, California Mammy’s Cupboard, Route 61, Natchez, Mississippi, still there, except Mammy has been whitewashed.Ĭoney Island Dairyland, Route 285, Aspen Park, Colorado, there seems to be something similar (the same one?) now located on 10 Old Stage Coach Rd Bailey, CO 80421 “The Big Shoe”), 10th & Chester, Bakersfield, California Gering Bakery, 10th Street, Gering, Nebraska, still there! ![]() Orange Julep, Route 9, Plattsburgh, New York Still there in Detroit Michigan, but a shadow of its former self.Ĭal Smith’s Barber Shop, Main Street, Galesburg, IllinoisĪmazingly still there at Dexter Avenue, Pawtucket, Rhode Island Wooden Shoe Cafe, Route 22 & 3, Norwood, California The building has not been demolished and its now a deli. Warsaw Ballroom, Collins Avenue, Miami Beach, Florida, prior to becoming Warsaw it was known by many other names including “Ovo” and “China Club”. Still there, in Texas, but now it’s an antiques store! The mid-century modern diners and kitschy roadside attractions have lost their sheen but the vintage signage hasn’t yet found its way to a trash heap. The 1950s pastel paint has faded but the local Mom & Pop shops are hanging onto business. Mattoon Service Station (pre-fabricated), National & Washington Boulevards, Culver City, CaliforniaĪrchitectural critic, photographer, and author, John Margolies began an American journey in the early 1970s, photographing the country’s novelty and vernacular architecture that he was concerned would soon be displaced by the growing modernist trend. John was later credited with recognising buildings that would be added to the National Register of Historic Places through his extensive documentary work.įollowing his passing in 2016, the Library of Congress created an archive consisting of 11,710 scans of his color slides, which capture this unique “in-between” moment for America. ![]() Hoot Owl Cafe, 8711 Long Beach Boulevard, Southgate, Los Angeles, Californiaįord dealership in a now-demolished art-deco building at 1300 Main Street, Klamath Falls, Oregon In my eyes, aesthetics and architecture are among the few things history got right, but it seems that all too often, they pay the biggest price as time goes on… Sure, they might have been looking a little sorry for themselves crumbling, repurposed several times over or abandoned entirely but at least they were still standing. I would have liked to see America during its in-between period– somewhere in the seventies when the whole “Stepford Wives” thing and censorship and social compliance was over with (more or less), but they hadn’t yet starting tearing down all those wonderful and whimsical buildings.
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