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Moonlight Drive-in
Status: Demolished
Location: 6892 Gilmore St., Rte 56, Potsdam, NY 13676
Screens: 1
Capacity: Unknown
Original owner: Built by Aleck Papayanakos and John Yianoukos.
Opening date: May 26, 1948
Final season: 1984
What's there now: Empty lot, snack bar building still standing, all other structures have been demolished

This page was last updated on January 10, 2010.

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Topo Map from 1980, courtesy of TerraServer USA. Aerial image from 1962, courtesy of the St. Lawrence County Soil and Water Conservation District. Aerial image from 1995, courtesy of TerraServer USA. Aerial image from 2006, courtesy of Google Earth.
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Aerial close-up image from 2006, courtesy of Google Earth. Grand opening tonight ad from the Potsdam Herald-Recorder on May 26, 1948. Moonlight Drive-in picture from 1948, courtesy of Jeff Szot.  
       
       

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