Linda Drive-In

712 Palm Avenue,
Palatka, FL 32177

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MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on May 5, 2021 at 6:33 pm

Boxoffice, Jan. 25, 1960: “Adelaide Gawthrop, Palatka exhibitor who is now hospitalized, has leased her Linda Drive-In, Palatka, to Floyd Stowe, local theatrical broker”

Boxoffice, June 27, 1960: “Floyd Stowe, local booker for independents, has relinquished some of his accounts in order to move to Palatka to manage his Linda Drive-In, which he acquired from Mrs. Adelaide Gawthrop.”

Boxoffice, Feb. 4, 1963: “The Linda Drive-In at Palatka, now operated by Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Stowe, was scheduled to become a unit of the MCM Theatres circuit of central Florida February 3. The Stowes plan to Atlanta, their former home.”

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on September 21, 2018 at 3:32 pm

Was it named after someone called Linda?

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on April 16, 2018 at 5:27 am

I bet people are dieing to go there now it is a cemetary?

Drive-In 54
Drive-In 54 on August 6, 2013 at 4:45 am

Video from 1997

FloridaDriveIns
FloridaDriveIns on October 27, 2011 at 11:09 pm

Video from 1997: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8eBAuUpZOA

Silicon Sam
Silicon Sam on February 5, 2010 at 4:22 pm

If you go due NW from the red marker pin on the map above, there is an open field divided into 8 rectangles. You can still make out the fanned out rows, and the building in the center of the field is in the same exact spot at the old projection booth, and I would assume snack bar. Likely it’s the same building.

April 1995 view shows it to be on it’s way to being a cemetery already.