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In 1953 it was fitted with a fiber glass screen, 80 by 40 feet, promoted by Ezell's drive-in owners' association. In 1954 delegates to a Variety Club convention watched a CinemaScope demonstration there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat was on its screen tower changed. At first it had an animated neon stagecoach and horses. A customer guessed that the display broke and cost too much to fix. In its place came a giant painted clown face, like the one on the Chalk Hill, another Ezell theater. A May 1960 Boxoffice item lists a new clown mural in a refurbishing of the theater, which also touched the concession stand and playground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 1954 Billboard item has Ezell buying it from the Interstate circuit, and McLendon and then Weisenburg ran it later. 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