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French Village is the name of a nearby unincorporated community, and one local blog places the old theater farther east, in Caseyville.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was built with more than a screen in mind. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cinematreasures.org\/theaters\/8637\"\u003eCinema Treasures\u003c\/a\u003e says the tower had a stage and dressing rooms underneath it. A tunnel ran from the front box office to the projection booth and on to the back of the lot, carrying power, water and speaker wire. The parking rows were steep enough that cars drove up a ramp to park and backed out to leave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn its later years the theater added adult films. Sources differ on how far that went. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cinematreasures.org\/theaters\/8637\"\u003eCinema Treasures\u003c\/a\u003e says it switched over. A commenter who went there says it was never all X-rated, and that the adult features ran at midnight on Saturdays after the regular show. Customers had to leave, pay again and show they were 18.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe closing date is disputed. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cinematreasures.org\/theaters\/8637\"\u003eCinema Treasures\u003c\/a\u003e gives 1984 and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/drive-ins.com\/wiki\/iltfren\/french-village-drive-in\"\u003eDrive-ins.com\u003c\/a\u003e gives 1992. Road Arch says about 1989, and a commenter recalls seeing films released in 1989 there in what he believes was its last year, by then as an independent. The structures stood empty into the 2000s and were demolished in 2005. 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