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This is certainly not the "last drive-in picture show" in Gatesville, Texas, at the time of this photograph, at least. The name is a takeoff on the 1971 movie "The Last Picture Show," about a dying Texas town

This is certainly not the "last drive-in picture show" in Gatesville, ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The Star Theatre in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where movies were first shown in 1928

The Star Theatre in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, where movies were...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: West Virginia Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division. Pur... More

Marquee of the Uptown Theatre in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Route 180, once the main road between Fort Worth and Dallas

Marquee of the Uptown Theatre in Grand Prairie, Texas, along Texas Rou...

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Stand-alone marquee for the Weirs drive-in movie theater in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire

Stand-alone marquee for the Weirs drive-in movie theater in Weirs Beac...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Called "The Weirs" by locals, the village, techincally part of larger Laconia, is named for a wide, sandy, public beach on Lake Winnip... More

The prow-like, plumed marquee of the Lamar Theatre in downtown Lamar, the county seat of Prowers County, Colorado

The prow-like, plumed marquee of the Lamar Theatre in downtown Lamar, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The theater opened its doors November 15th, 1946, as a single-screen, 832 seat "High Art Deco" theatre. Credit line: Gates Frontiers F... More

Marquee of SCAD's Trustees Theatre in downtown Savannah, Georgia

Marquee of SCAD's Trustees Theatre in downtown Savannah, Georgia

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. "SCAD" is not a family name or slang term. It's an acronym for the Savannah College of Art and Design. Trustees Theater opened in 1946... More

The Rialto Theatre building in Alamosa, Colorado

The Rialto Theatre building in Alamosa, Colorado

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The Rialto opened in 1925 as an American Legion Hall. Within two years it became a movie house seating about 1,000, and also featured ... More

The prow-like, plumed marquee of the Lamar Theatre in downtown Lamar, the county seat of Prowers County, Colorado

The prow-like, plumed marquee of the Lamar Theatre in downtown Lamar, ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The theater opened its doors November 15th, 1946, as a single-screen, 832 seat "High Art Deco" theatre. Credit line: Gates Frontiers F... More

Marquee and front facade of the Fox, formerly West, movie theater in Trinidad, Colorado, on the Purgatoire River on the northern end of the Raton Pass leading into New Mexico. Edward West opened the theater in 1917 as the Star Theatre

Marquee and front facade of the Fox, formerly West, movie theater in T...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photograp... More