Movie Landmark Burns Down

The Admiral Twin Drive-In movie theater here in Tulsa just went up in flames this afternoon. A lot of you will have seen it…it was the drive-in featured in the movie “The Outsiders.” (Apparently Ralph Macchio has already twittered about it.) There’s also a band named after it.

I’m pretty bummed. I have a lot of good childhood memories there, and the owner said he wasn’t able to get insurance on it because it was a wooden structure. So it’s a total loss. Although, there has been a major facebook movement already started to gather donations to rebuild, so we’ll see. I hope they do…The Admiral Twin was the last drive-in here in Tulsa. The other one I used to go to was destroyed by a tornado years ago and never rebuilt. I was looking forward to taking my own kids there someday when they were old enough.

Full story here.

So the Admiral Twin Drive-In outlasted Ralph Macchio’s acting career.

I grew up in Tulsa and my high school friends on Facebook have been talking about it all day.

Strangely, I somehow managed to never go to a movie there.

He’s still acting. Didn’t you see the trailer for his latest feature?