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Bright Leaf Drive-In Theater

Item set

Title

Bright Leaf Drive-In Theater

Description

items pertaining to the Bright Leaf Drive-In Theatre. In 1948, Lester Davis opened the Mount Airy Drive-In on West Lebanon Street with his partner Elllis R. Forrest. The theater stayed open 33 years. In 1954, Davis and Forrest opened their 2nd drive-in, the Bright Leaf at Charlie Norman's Barn on old US 52. A year later it moved to current location and that's when 20 year old Don Davis took over the operation. He died in 2003- 2005 article the admission price rose from $1 a car when the theater first started to $7.50 a person for 2 movies today.

Subject

Surry County (N.C.)
Mount Airy (N.C.)
Bright Leaf Drive-In Theatre
theater
theatre
business and industry

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/

Identifier

Mta_BLDT

Coverage

Mount Airy (N.C.)

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