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marquee

Credit: Justin West

Added: 12/31/2007

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concession building already being gutted

Credit: Justin West

Added: 12/31/2007

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marquee downed after season

Credit: Justin West

Added: 12/31/2007

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Justin West in the snack bar, What a difference a couple months makes

Credit: Justin West

Added: 12/31/2007

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projectionist Tim Reed in the stripped projection booth

Credit: Justin West

Added: 12/31/2007

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gutted box offices

Credit: Justin West

Added: 12/31/2007

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Inside the projection booth... this is what the lone remaining carbon arc lamphouse looked like after I brought it back to life.  For the most part, knowledge of this technology was lost several generations of projectionists ago.  Potential relief projec

Credit: Tim Reed

Added: 12/31/2007

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Shortly after the start of the show, when I began working there in '97.  The movie was Liar, Liar.

Credit: Tim Reed

Added: 12/31/2007

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A view of the burning carbon arc, through the (smoked-glass) lamphouse viewing porthole.  The red and black knobs at left are some of the carbon and reflector adjustment controls.

Credit: Tim Reed

Added: 12/31/2007

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Intermission, 1997.  Filmack's Variety Show clock is on the 120 ft-wide screen.  The theatre was just months away from being bulldozed into the ground.

Credit: Tim Reed

Added: 12/31/2007

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ticket

Credit: Justin West

Added: 12/31/2007

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Aerial shot. Notice the double-rows?

Credit: Justin Z. West

Added: 12/31/2007

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aerial from final season

Credit: Justin West

Added: 9/14/2002

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kytsout014.jpg

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Added: 1/24/2005

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now the South Park Business Center

Credit: Tberger

Added: 8/11/2010

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SouthPark Business Center

Credit: Tberger

Added: 8/11/2010

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From a 1997 Courier-Journal article about drive-ins in Louisville. At the time, the South Park would be open one more year, and the Kenwood would be open through the 2008 season.

Credit: Rosalind Causey

Added: 7/8/2017

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