After 3 years I finally got some speaker poles made. Started with the two speakers from the I-70 drive-in in Kansas City which I bought replacement parts from the original manufacturer. After I got those working I bought a junction box from the Starlite Drive-in in Neligh Nebraska and then for about a year I did nothing with them. I then got two more speakers that came from the Council Bluffs Drive-in (which was really cool since that was the first drive-in theater that I ever went to and they tore it down right after I went there) and I decided that those should go on the other junction box so I swapped them out and went on a search for another junction box. Contacted the I-70 and was told no but got a tour of the projection booth instead and then the following year I asked again and was told yes and got one of the Simplex junction boxes with the plastic colored dome on top. Bought some new parts for that and then everything sat for another year until today when I finally got the parts together and had a local gas station weld it for me. The weld is not perfect but I think it will hold and I can hide that once I paint it but they only charged me 30 bucks to weld both stands so I can't complain. Especially since the other places around town wanted 30-100 dollars to just weld up one. I plan to paint a small picture of the sign from each drive-in that the speakers came from on the base and I also got a cheap paint brush to paint the pole with so I can get the brush strokes (trying to make it just like the drive-in poles
) will post some more pics once I get it painted and wired up. Might even see about getting the light in the boxes to work again.
