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Tazewell Virginia, 24651

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SunSet Drive-In Now-and-Then

What We Didn’t Keep: From the Sunset to Beyond Video

There is a photograph of the old Four-Way area of Tazewell that I keep returning to. Taken from above, it shows a landscape that seems both familiar and almost impossible to recognize. Fields stretch between narrow roads. Houses sit apart from one another. And in the lower corner stands a tall outdoor movie screen, facing a broad clearing where cars once gathered after dark. That was the Sunset Drive-In. Today, the Food Lion occupies the site. To someone who never knew the theater, this might be an interesting photograph of an earlier Tazewell. To those of us who went there, it opens...

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