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Entrance Sign

I wonder what the last feature film on this sign was...
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Finally, first to comment!

Love seeing those signs, makes me wonder what it looked like with all those lights and blazing words... with youthful faces driving in to enjoy a good movie.
Dani
Wed 09-19-2007
This must have been an awesome sign, when it was all lit up!
Vacant NJ
Wed 09-19-2007
I REMEMBER WHEN I WENT TO MY FIRST DRIVE INN, I MUST HAVE BEEN 7 YRS OLD.
SEEING THIS BRINGS BACK MEMORIES SINCE OUR DRIVE INN GOT KNOCKED DOWN AND REPLACED BY A SAM'S.
A.S.V.
Wed 09-19-2007
I wonder, too... Betcha it was a B grade horror flick!
Mel
Thu 09-20-2007
I wonder what was the first. We sure know there were many miles of film spun.
Martymizuno
Thu 09-20-2007
I too love this vintage signage, each one of these steel and neon signs were really individual works of art! to bad they dont make em like that any more...
JAVA
Thu 09-20-2007
Martymizuno and Java! Where have you both been?
Janice
Fri 09-21-2007
Something tells me it was Tango and Cash.
Matt
Fri 09-21-2007
"Frankenstiens Brain"
greenskulker
Fri 09-28-2007
People should really restore some of these old theatre's...especially since we have so much nicer cars now. What better way to show em off! LOL
Kristiara
Mon 10-01-2007
Pure Googie, atomic-age style. I love these old neons (not too many on this side of the Pond though!)
rich_edwards79
Mon 10-01-2007
The last movie here ahd to be...
"American Graffiti"

I don't know why but I feel really sad looking upon this photo. It's like all the good old days have died. We own a 1959 T-Bird and now I look at that dead sign I can't help think of how sweet it would be to take a girl to a movie while in that old T-bird.... It's truly sad to look at that sign and think of just how simple life was back in the old days were the rest of the world seemed so far away..... thanks for killing innocence CNN!

Love the pic Motts simple yet so sad.... I'd love too have seen the neon all lit up.
Canada
Wed 10-03-2007
Canada I agree with you. There is no more good old days. They died a long time ago. I seen my childhood drive-in demolished this summer and it broke my heart. I seen wonderful amusement parks like Paragon, Whalom and Rocky Point close up and left abandoned or the land used for condos.

Kids today will never experience the fun of going to a drive -in or a great old amusement park.
The Other Lynne
Wed 10-03-2007
Oddly enough in Western NY think Corning & westward there are a few places that bring back memories of the good old days. There's a drive-in not too far from my home (say 18 miles-ish) that is up to 2 screens they do a huge business during the summer but are closed during the winter and are run locally.
http://www.portvilledrivein.com/

There's also an older-style amusement park near Jamestown called Midway Park see link:
http://nysparks.state..../info.asp?parkID=183

Not all of the good old days have gone away.

As a side note there's another drive in that runs in NY state, that was a good deal for the $ in Black River NY called Black River Drive-in (just off base near Ft Drum, NY)
Froglet
Mon 10-15-2007
I am pretty sure the 'house' in the background used to be a floral shop. Off to the left is a small strip mall that had a tux shop (that's all I remember, as Prom was king. Further left was the McDonald's)
Caroline
Mon 10-22-2007
I work not too far from this old Drive in. Theres a similar one in Burrville, CT as well. You can still see the sign and the screen. Its not too overgrown either.
JLP
Mon 10-22-2007
I remember that sign lit up now. IT was a sight to see. How convienent it was located near mcdonalds and the many area motels.
JLP
Tue 11-06-2007
Praise the Lord it was finally shut down!!!... that nest of filth!!!... the movie was the last thing important here... the unmatchable beauty of "The Sound of Music" corrupted by those teen's first painful pleasure moans!!!

by the way... I feel more contemporary about that last film featured here... THE FLINTSTONES is my guess.
KEMPKES
Fri 02-01-2008
yes yes How I loved those signs! I still miss the original Holiday Inn sign. How colorful they were as any other drive in sign.
jamie
Sat 04-12-2008
Hi, went to see the 50's movies in our 1968
chevy cammaro, all the car clubs went up for the night, we all cruzed the pike..we danced to the 50's music..good family fun.GONE...
lora
Fri 08-15-2008
Last thing on that sign was something about a flee market. You must've been there within a year or two before it was completely torn down, it wasn't very long before that when the sign was still complete.
Typical CT, between the yuppies whining about noise and the plague of ghettos, everything of any interest gets destroyed.
Theres still a dozen or two active drive-ins in CT alone, just have to know where to look.

btw, the comment about the "nest of filth," really Virginia, you must get out more.
V
Sat 09-05-2009
I believe Canada's right that it was American Graffiti. Every year one of the local classic auto clubs hosted a night where that movie was shown, followed by a cruise up and down the pike. In 1987 or so there were so many muscle cars that the entire road shook from McDonalds to Roy Rogers.
DL
Wed 03-17-2010
I remember seeing Thank God It's Friday at the drive in (in Texas) in my dad's 1956 Ford stationwagon. I was 7...
Satiria
Sun 08-15-2010
i remember before the one in calgary closed the last one i saw in a drive in theater was godzilla. the resent one.
TYREX
Tue 09-14-2010
This looks a lot like the sign that used to be in front of my town's drive-in. I loved that place. The back of the screen was to the main street in town, it had a big read comedy and drama mask and said "DRIVE IN" in big fancy script. Now the space is occupied by a DrugMart, a Wal-Mart and a craptastic little strip mall that is mostly abandoned.
potbellynine
Sun 04-10-2011
1945 -- this would have been one of the earliest drive-ins. The first one was in the late 30s but then WWII almost stopped new development for civilian industry. This would have been a very old drive-in.
Devin
Mon 05-30-2011

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