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The Tampa Tribune

Published: November 13, 2007

Want some entertainment with a retro feel? The Fun-Lan on East Hillsborough Avenue at 22nd Street in Tampa is one of the few places where moviegoers can nestle in their automobile cocoons to watch first-run movies such as "American Gangster" with Denzel Washington. And as if that isn't weirdly delicious enough, the Fun-Lan mystique doesn't vanish at sunrise.

The outdoor movie palace turns into the Swap Shop on Thursday through Sunday mornings. An open-air mart, the Swap Shop attracts small independent vendors who set up displays of baby socks, cheap paper towels, knockoff Prada bags and pink-sequined auto mats. Who knows what the bargain hunter might find?

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•Four outdoor screens rise from a 13-acre paved site that can accommodate hundreds of automobiles.

•The prices are good, too. Less than $20 buys movie tickets, popcorn and drinks for two.

•The Swap Shop is a drive-in-and-sell kind of place. Sellers park in designated spaces and prop long folding tables in front of their vehicles.

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