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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. ....

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