RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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Saturday, September 1, 2018
Along 66, July 2018: Bel Air Drive In Sign Removed
JULY 20--
Sign removed from the long-closed Bel Aire Drive In Theater in Mitchell, Illinois. Workers removed the decaying sign on July 19. The two-sided sign halves were transported to Chicago and North Dakota. The sign was located at 1117 E. Chain of Rocks Road, Route 66.
All other evidence of the theater is long-gone. The sign removal took place 30 years after it closed for business. The Bel-Air Drive-In opened in the mid-1950s as a single screen and in the 1970s, a second screen was built. It closed in 1987.
UPDATE: Half of the sign went to a sign collector in Hanover Park. The other half went to a man in North Dakota.
We've been seeing the sign since we started cruising Route 66 in 2002. We feel fortunate to have seen it this past June.
One Less Neat Thing to See On the Old Road. --RoadDog
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