I actually took a three-day holiday last weekend, for the first time in… well, at least four years, since I started freelancing. It was pretty great, although I was very naughty and did not draw a thing.
Instead, please accept this amazing thing as an apology:
I happened to be driving a back road last week, and when I came upon this sign, I nearly choked on my coffee. This is the back side of what appears – from the highway – to be a former drive-in theater which has been converted to a motorhome graveyard.
I had no idea it had a circus as well.
You can see the line of rusting, moss-encrusted motorhomes in Google’s satellite view. The former drive-in theater’s screen is the structure in the lower left-hand corner of the property.
And the circus is… well, I’m not sure. I have a feeling it might be underground. Maybe in the basement of what used to be the projection building, but which is now surely nothing but nightmare material (center).
Could it be that the circus equipment resides there in the winter? Or maybe the mini-circus that just has games and rides? I didn’t spot a manure pile or corral. Cool sign!
Maybe it’s just the name of the place. The Circus Motorhome Graveyard. “Head on down to the Circus for all your junkyard needs…”
(Clearly I need more coffee.)
Even though I now live in Maine, way back in the ’70s I lived in Oak Harbor. We used to go to this drive-in! There used to be a playground and I remember my Aunt would take me on the swings while we waited for the movie to start.
Sometimes they would even have flea markets there on the weekends!
It was called the Circus Drive-In back in the day. Towards the end it used to show naughty movies. Kind of hard to believe since it was right by a highway!
Aha! Mystery solved! Thanks for the info, I was really wondering!
http://www.drive-ins.com/detail/watcirc
I’m kind of shocked nobody’s stolen that sign, it’s awesome! Although, if it is as big as it looks, you’d need a rather large automobile to truck it away.