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Note: Despite specifically mentioning Nov. 23 on its web site last weekend, the Jesup was closed for Thanksgiving. Somehow that means I swapped my Jesup visit with my trip to the Starlight. I might work out the details later. It’s all virtual, you know. It’s Day 327 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. These distances look a…
It’s Day 326 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. Driving from Elizabethton TN near the northeast tip of that state all the way down to the Starlight Drive-In Theatre in Atlanta GA took almost five hours. But making it to a drive-in showing a new release on the night before Thanksgiving was worth it. When I first drew up this…
It’s Day 78 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. US Highway 76 is twisty enough that it took about an ahour and a half to drive 65 miles between two classic drive-ins, from the Swan in Blue Ridge GA to the Tiger Drive In Theatre in Tiger. The Tiger opened in April 1954 as a single-screen drive-in that could hold…