This week marked fifteen years since a fire destroyed the original screens at Tulsa's Admiral Twin Drive-In.

The Admiral Twin's owner says he remembers that devastating day like it was yesterday. Fifteen years later, he says the new question is: how long can they keep the gates open?

It was September 3, 2010, when a fire reduced the iconic screens at the Admiral Twin to rubble.

"It was the longest drive of my life. Coming down, you could see the smoke from the—you know—so it went down pretty fast," said owner Blake Smith.

The fire shut down the drive-in for more than a year.

"I had a fear that they were going to just tear it down and do away with it. But I was real happy that they actually decided to rebuild it," said moviegoer Jessica Dunham.

Before that, the Admiral Twin had been a

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