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MEMPHISMO commented about Dubuque Drive-In on Jul 2, 2016 at 8:51 pm

The screen tower of this drive-in theater was my summer home when I was a kid in the mid fifties. My Dad managed the theater and our family lived in an apartment inside the screen tower. You can see the windows in the picture. The two darker windows on the right were the office and the rest were our apartment. We had no toilet in the apartment however there were several toilets available in the concession stand. Of course there were no windows on the back side of the apartment, just a black door. The black door was almost invisible because the bottom of the screen tower was painted black.

I had two younger brothers and lots of friends from the trailer court next door. We would all gather each night on the playground before the movie started. Once the movie started many of us would climb into the disabled car Dad had parked on the third row to watch the movie. Who else had their own car at the drive-in when they were only nine years old? The floor of the car was covered with spilled popcorn which we of course got for free.