SKOWHEGAN — The reddish glow in the evening sky on U.S. Route 201 east of downtown Skowhegan is a signal. It’s a sign. It’s the Skowhegan Drive-In Theatre, which moved into the future this past summer when it converted to digital projection. This week, theater owner Don Brown stepped back from the future and into the past with the installation of a replica neon sign that looks just like the original sign did when the drive-in opened in 1954, mounted on a red 35-foot pole. “They took the old sign that had been lying on the ground and they made a pattern from that and they duplicated it,” Brown said Wednesday as he turned on the sign with its bright red neon arrow pointing to the refurbished ticket booth at the entrance to the drive-in. Sign Services Inc., of Stetson, did all the work, paid for with just over $8,000 from the Skowhegan facade grant program.

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