Dallas History Items: Freez-Ette Drive-Inn

Opening day, Freez-Ette Drive Inn, 2302 West Clarendon, circa 1952. Cropped detail view. Cellulose diacetate negative by Dallas photographer Tom Collins. V1995.4.253 - Gift of Tom Collins.

Commercial photographer Tom Collins captured this image of a clown entertaining a group of neighborhood children at the opening of a new Freez-Ette Drive Inn in Oak Cliff. Collins was hired to photograph many business openings during Dallas' post-war boom years.

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