Sep 03 2010
Tulsa Icon, Admiral Twin, Burns
Sadly, Tulsa’s only remaining drive-in, Admiral Twin, burned down earlier today. The drive-in became famous after appearing in Coppola’s Oklahoma-filmed movie “The Outsiders,” based on the S. E. Hinton book.
But it’s particularly sad for me because I have fond personal memories of the theater, including one of the first dates my husband and I went on together. (We saw Event Horizon and it was the scariest movie I’d ever seen.)
In memory, because within in its futuristic sexless scenario, it’s also about nostalgia and drive-ins, I bring you David Bowie’s 1973 “Drive In Saturday:”
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