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ITEM 7 · DUG NEGATIVE — THE DRIVE-IN REGISTERS AND THE GROUND AGREE
The drive-in is the kids'-leg's load-bearing test for the automobile age — the screen a family attended in its car — and for Walkerton it returns a clean, documented negative. The drive-in registers and theatre databases, which track the form lot by lot and are complete for Indiana's commercial screens, carry no drive-in at a Walkerton address at any date; the canvasses agree (no outdoor theatre in the postwar directories), and the ground agrees — the town's highway lots on Roosevelt Road carry the trade row Businesses prints, no screen among them. The county's drive-in culture is real and is the sister cities' ground: the screens of the South Bend–Mishawaka country, where this town's families drove for the form, at boundary size. The item closes DUG, and its finding matters to this section's shape: Walkerton's children of the drive-in decades were an audience exported nightly to other towns' lots — the same pattern as the rinks — and the town's own family-amusement institutions, the ones it actually built, are the register's indoor and daylight ones (the fair relation, the parks, the school), told in their files.
Principal sources: the drive-in registers and theatre databases, checked November 2026; the postwar canvasses; Businesses (the Roosevelt Road row).