Powell
Valley Drive-In
VA 610 about 3 miles east of Big Stone Gap, Va.
years of operation: 1952-80
currently: warehouses, truck parking
Notable in that its movies were
actually projected onto the side of a hay barn -- that is, until
it burned down during a showing of the 1964 war movie 633
Squadron. Reportedly, a tossed cigarette ignited
the hay and sent the barn up in flames at the moment that a plane
crashed and burned on the screen! In 1979 it changed name to Viking Drive-In, after the local high school's athletic
teams.
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