ARCHIVE PHOTOGRAPH / mrg 00312 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00312

Tascosa Drive-in Theater, angle view, NE 24th & Dumas Drive, Amarillo, Texas

Texas ↗Amarillo ↗1977 ↗

THE ORIGINAL RECORD

Archive details

Photographer: Margolies, John
Photographed: 1977.
Location: United States--Texas--Amarillo
Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35 mm (slide format).
Digital ID: mrg 00312 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/mrg.00312
Reproduction number: LC-DIG-mrg-00312 (digital file from original color transparency)
Call number: LC-MA05- 312 [P&P]
Subjects: Drive-in theaters--1970-1980.
United States--Texas--Amarillo.
Texas--Amarillo
Drive-in theaters--1970-1980
United States--Texas--Amarillo
Margolies categories: Theater screens (backs and fronts); Drive-in movie theaters & signs
Rights advisory — Library of Congress: No known restrictions on publication. For more information, see "John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive - Rights and Restrictions Information" https://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/723_marg.html
Rights & attribution ↗
Original catalog notes: The original Tascosa screen was at the bottom of the hill where a RV park is now located at Dumas E-way and N 24th St. This screen, which burned in the late 1970s, had a mural on the front. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2018)
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer.
Margolies categories: Theater screens (backs and fronts); Drive-in movie theaters & signs.
Purchase; John Margolies 2007 (DLC/PP-2007:125).
Credit line: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008), Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
General information about the John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.mrg
Forms part of: John Margolies Roadside America photograph archive (1972-2008).
Source: Library of Congress record ↗ · Image resource ↗
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Tascosa Drive-in Theater, angle view, NE 24th & Dumas Drive, Amarillo, Texas

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