Save The Admiral Twin Drive In

I've been busy again, but I'm still blogging when I have time.  It's been a rough few days here lately.  I had a birthday on the first and Wynn and I have been busy looking for things for the house.  We move in six days so things are starting to get a bit hectic.  We went to a furniture auction yesterday but we were out bid on everything, but we have a bed and I know of some free furniture stashed away at a family member's house a few miles away so that will do for now.  Oh I made an A on the Biology test last week, so that's awesome.

Here's what's not so awesome.  One of the last drive in theaters in the US burned on the second.  I loved this place it was just down the road from where the Airstream is parked and only a few miles from Route 66.  One of my favorite movies was filmed there, The Outsiders, and the theater was still in operation after all of these years and I had planned to try to make The Outsiders Festival on the last day of the season.

I'm still devastated by the loss of this historic structure.

It was just the screen but the screen was not insured.  It was a nine foot wooden frame structure that no one would insure and it was a total loss within ten or twenty minutes.  No one knows for sure how it caught fire, I personally think it was arson.  It had recently rained and there were no electron components in the structure.

There has been an out pouring of support by the people of Tulsa and it looks as though the Admiral Twin will be rebuilt and open again by next season.  Wynn and I plan to attend a benefit to raise money for the Admiral Twin on October 10th at the Rose Bowl another historic Route 66 attraction.  

I hope that someday soon the Admiral Twin will be showing movies at dusk like it always has before.

Gratuitious Outsiders still taken from one of the scenes filmed at the Admiral Twin.