Nothing else seemed new. Just as I entered the lot, past the ticket booth, pigeons started streaming out of the snack bar, knowing they had to start leaving early to all be out by the time I got there. They just barely made it. The building walls were almost completely rotted out, and at the back of the building I could see where a staircase used to be, until it was apprearantly removed as a nuseance. One projector was lying on the ground...
(Note the Maltese cross device in the lower photo. This device is the same shape as the intermitant which is used for stepping film for projection, but this object is too big for that.)
...and the other was still in place in the booth.
By April 2000 the attractive nusiance central building had been demolished, but the rubble and projector was left in place.
Microsoft Terraserver Satellite Image of Sunset Drive-in.
USGS Othello, 1954 and 1979
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