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An additional 30 businesses have been approved to be recipients of a $10.5 million grant through the CARES Act, which enabled the agency to establish a new Revolving Loan Fund at the Chautauqua County Industrial Development Agency.
The intent of the fund is to provide capital, in the form of low-interest loans, to both businesses and nonprofit organizations as a means to respond to economic injury resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Those most recently approved for funding include: Merritt Estate Winery; The Original Crunch Roll; Pucci Carpet; Excelco/Newbrook; Artone; International Ordnance; Kimbert Manufacturing; Heritage Ministries; Uhl Ventures (Servpro); Ark Wholesale; SKB Auto Sales; Brigiottas; Billicki Law Firm; Advanced Production Group; Skate Shop; Corvus Bus & Charter; Webb’s Candies/Motel; Falconer Hotel; La Quinta/Holiday Inn/Hampton Inn; Big Inlet Brewing; Ivory Acres Weddings; Shawbucks; Cockaigne; Pace’s Pizzeria; Webb’s Harbor Rest
An additional 30 businesses have been approved to be recipients of a $10.5 million grant through the CARES Act, which enabled the agency to establish a new Revo
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The former Falconer Drive-In Theater, located at 3218 Falconer-Kimball Stand Road, is now the location of Sisters Restaurant. The drive-in closed in 1987.
Photos by Dennis Phillips
Evidence that Chautauqua County once basked in a post-war glow made only brighter by several drive-in movie theaters might be hard to come by today.
But just like any good detective story depicted in movies displayed across towering screens overlooking hundreds of family-filled automobiles at dusk, the devil is in the details.
At its peak there were a half-dozen drive-ins reaching just about all corners of the county. Most were built in the late 1940s or early ’50s, at a time when rural families were expanding and vehicles were cheaper to own.