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Mammy's Kitchen
Featured
By Plantation' Drive-ln
Concession Keyed to Unusual Screen Tower i
Which Resembles Old Southern Mansion
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f^ STATELY SOUTHERN mansion on
Highway 71. two miles south of Neosho.
Mc, is actually the back of the screen
tower of the Edgewood Eh-ive-In Theatre.
Reminiscent of the Hermitage, historic
home of Andrew Jackson, near Nashville.
Tenn.. the tower building. 60x60 feet, actually
contains four apartments, and the
front windows are curtained and lighted.
Wayfarers have often stopped to learn who
lives there.
THEATRE NAMED FOR FAMILY ESTATE
Hugh Gardner, owner of the theatre,
says the name was taken from that of his
grandfather Gardner's plantation in west
Tennessee, and in keeping with the old
southern tradition of having the kitchen or
cook house separated from the residence,
the concession building in the center of
the 20-acre area is identified as "Mammy's
Kitchen," by a large green neon sign.
The concession building, which also
A view of one side
of the Y-shaped concession
counter at
the Cdgewood The
face of the counter
is green plastic, the
top is gold formica.
Business is always good at Mammy's Kitchen for the management keeps a close watch on the quality
nf the food, beverages and other items sold, and service is courteous and fast.
This screen tower building is
built of 12 different laminations
of wood on a concrete base It
contains four apartments The
ticket office at the right is
equipped to handle two /ones
of traffic Green neon letters
ore used on the white steel
identification sign at the left.
houses the projection room, is built of concrete
blocks, painted white. Mammy's
Kitchen is finished throughout in naturalfinish
knotty pine which is kept waxed and
polished regularly. The floor is red and
green asphalt tile.
Large sliding barn doors admit patrons
through twin screen doors, and they pass
up either side of a V-type counter to the
one cashier at the front center (Mint for
speedy flow of traffic. Concession items
-sold are identical on either side of the V.
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"HUGHBURGERS" ARE FAVORITES
One of the specialties of Mammy's
Kitchen are hamburgers made so dellciously
that they have won a district reputation,
and some national fame through the
tourist trade from the nearby Ozark resorts
and the servicemen in Camp Crowder.
located just 1.000 feet to the south of the
drive-in. The hamburgers are made accord-
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