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Maj. I. Jay Sadow of Chattanooga said
that construction is imder way on the Lake
Amusement Center there. The center will
20 acres and will include a four-
lake for fishing as well as mechanical
rides, playgrounds and other features.
The drive-in. with 550-car capacity, will
about $225,000 and will open in April
1951. It will be equipped by Wil-Kin Thea-
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in Savannah. Norma Prather returned to
tr-I as secretary to George Jones.
T. E. Bell of Jacksonville, Fla., is building
an outdoor theatre at Oceanwave, Fla., a
Jacksonville suburb. The airer will open in
January and will be equipped with Motiograph
in-car speakers and Ashcraft lamps.
Sam Sherman, salesman for U-I in Tennessee,
and W. D, Kelly, sales supervisor, returned
from a trip to the Cumberland cirin
Winchester, Tenn. Ed Oniel, Georgia
U-I salesman, recovered after a recent illness.
Syd Whitman, Alabama salesman, returned
from a trip to south Alabama and
north Florida.
D. K. McComas of the Tropicaire Drive-In,
Miami, was on Filmrow and said the recent
hurricane had torn down his fence around
the airer.
Supply.
Starlight Drive-in, Atlanta, played
host on Saturday night to about 100 employes
of the Eastpoint Amusement Co. after the
last show. Employes roasted wieners and
had a fine time. Charles V. Cleveland manages
the Starlight. He recently installed
new equipment.
Baileys new Lincoln Theatre, Panama City,
Fla,, was to open this week. It is a de luxe
400-seat house for Negro patrons.
Bid Davis of Panama City, Fla., has installed
an Aristocrat popcorn machine. Lam
Amusement Co., Rome, Ga., purchased three
Manley machines for the Lam circuit and
Hap Barnes installed one at his new Knoxville
drive-in.
Cal Allen, Dandee Drive-In, Columbia,
Tenn., was on Filmrow.
Bud Chalmers of ABC Booking Co. refrom
a three-week trip to Florida.
The new Woodward Theatre at Woodward,
Fla., was to open November 6. It has a
of 804 and booking for the house
will be handled by ABC Booking Co. The
Drive-In, Blountsville, Fla., another
account, will open November 15. Hap
Barnes was in Knoxville, Tenn., recently.
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Parson, salesman, Thurmond People, janitor; Elmo Cobb, shipper; Fletcher Owens,
helper; J. W. Harpey, installer; J. W. M.arkham, service manager; N. D. McCollum,
salesman; Phil Whicker, owner; Lawson Rankin, general manager; Mrs. Annie
Rankin, bookkeeper, and Doris Utley, secretary.
'Mailman' Crew Shoots
At Silver Springs, Fla.
OCALA, FLA.—A Columbia shooting crew
of 65 is on location at Silver Springs for
work on "The Barefoot Mailman," and two
other studios are studying the territory for
possible shooting sites. Henry Weinberger
and Al Hogsett, 20th-Fox, inspected sites
here and at Rainbow Springs and Wekiwachee
Springs for backgrounds for "The
Frog Man" and Paramount is considering
Silver Springs as a location for "Cross
Winds."
Talgar Associate Buys Site
MERRITT ISLAND, FLA.—A 350-car drivein
will be constructed in central Brevard
county when government restrictions permit,
Randolph Ellinor, manager of the State Theatre,
said. R. N. Koblegard jr. of Fort Pierce
and associate of the Talgar Theatres Co..
owner of the State and Van Croix theatres
in Brevard county and 26 other theatres in
Florida, had closed a deal with A. Fortenberry
for a ten-acre tract on the beach road
Merritt Island. The site is located about a
quarter of a mile east of the Merritt Island
Four Corners. Ellinor said that a tract
of land west of Cocoa for which an option
was taken some time ago as the site for
the drive-in, was not taken up.
Theatre to E. S. Winburn
JACKSONVILLE, FLA.—E. S. Winburn
has purchased the Fairfax Theatre. He is a
former member of the state legislature and
a county judge, as well as an experienced
theatreman.
Hold Cooking School
JACKSONVILLE—The Florida Theatre was
converted into a school room for a two-day
Frigidaire cooking school.
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