Renfro

In Theater Catalog's 1955 Drive-in Index, capacity 485.


The Microsoft Terraserver Satelite View of this theater site. Even though developers built a K-Mart on the radio range station to the north, the row landscaping pictured here remains as of January 2000.


All dressed up and no screen to show. Anyone parked here will have to be entertained by the sky, or the rising gas prices.


Vandals strike again. Even though the screen and projection booth are gone, the owners appearently kept some equipment on site in the storage shed. The projectors were too big to lug away. Ken Layton says those are Century "C" projectors.


How long has it been since drive-ins gave up trying to sheild rain from their customers? This place still has Drizzle Gard in its original packaging.

Giant film reel. At least it seems giant if you have only seen 16mm projectors up close.

Projector motors and film transport. Ken Layton says these are RCA soundheads with a solar cell.

On your picture of the popcorn popper, it looks like a Cretors "President" model and those are Projected Sound speaker castings stacked up near it. --Ken Layton

Projector stands. (Sorry, sorry; those are projector PEDESTALS. No, really, I want to use the most accurate terms.)

The marquee letters were left here and manipulated along with everything else. At least there are worse four letter words ending in "K" that they could have spelled.

The screen anchor.


USGS Orchards, 1961

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