Oasis Mobile Home Park

Oasis Mobile Home Park Oasis Mobile Home Park In the sixties, there were drive-ins … and then there were DRIVE-INS. The Oasis just outside Chicago was among the latter.

Built at a cost of $555,000 over a twenty-acre spread, The Oasis sat 1,600 cars, along with seventy seats in each of two indoor theaters facing a 52 X 125-foot screen. The approach took you by desert tents and concrete camels with sheiks mounted thereon. Sand dunes were painted on fences running hundreds of yards alongside the entrance road. This was suburban Chicago, one minute from Oak Grove, Il

linois, and 22 minutes from the city’s loop. Folks from the neighborhoods must have thought they’d cross hemispherical lines as they neared The Oasis. Plastic palm trees dotted the landscape. Waterfalls spouted forth from what appeared to be desert wells. It was a work of engineering and showmanship genius, the brainchild of one Oscar Brotman, exhibitor turned attorney, then back again to his first love (he’d run four theaters before turning twenty-one). Oscar was forty-four when he opened the Oasis in 1961.

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7500 Elmhurst Rd Ofc
Des Plaines, IL
60018

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(847) 827-6694

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