In the March 2, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, Martin Theatres president C. L. Patrick announced that his company had acquired a bunch of theaters from Floyd Enterprises. Among them was the Fun-Lan in Edgewater.
In the March 2, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, Martin Theatres president C. L. Patrick announced that his company had acquired a bunch of theaters from Floyd Enterprises. Among them was the Boulevard in “De Land.”
In the March 2, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, Martin Theatres president C. L. Patrick announced that his company had acquired a bunch of theaters from Floyd Enterprises. Among them was the No. 1 in South Daytona.
In the March 2, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, Martin Theatres president C. L. Patrick announced that his company had acquired a bunch of theaters from Floyd Enterprises. Among them was the Joy-Lan in Dade City. I wonder when (if?) Floyd got it back.
In the March 2, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, Martin Theatres president C. L. Patrick announced that his company had acquired a bunch of theaters from Floyd Enterprises. Among them was the Dale in Auburndale.
Looking through 1949 issues of the Eldon Advertiser, I can’t find any mention of a local drive-in, even though the indoor Tom’s Theatre and later the Grand Glaize Drive-In are there. I also checked some decent 1948 USGS aerial photos and didn’t see anything obvious. (That promising shape that Kenmore noted was empty land in ‘48.) I wonder whether the Film Daily Year Book got it wrong in 1947, or if it was some kind of backyard, temporary drive-in.
Boxoffice, Feb. 23, 1970: “Ponco Theatres, consisting of the Skyline Drive-In in East Stroudsburg, the Grand Theatre in East Stroudsburg and the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg, Pa., has been sold by Jack Luckey, owner-operator for the last ten years, to Tri State Theatres of Matamoras, Pa. Tri State Theatres is owned by Irving Hulst, who now operates a circuit of theatres in Pennsylvania and New York state.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 23, 1970: “Ponco Theatres, consisting of the Skyline Drive-In in East Stroudsburg, the Grand Theatre in East Stroudsburg and the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg, Pa., has been sold by Jack Luckey, owner-operator for the last ten years, to Tri State Theatres of Matamoras, Pa. Tri State Theatres is owned by Irving Hulst, who now operates a circuit of theatres in Pennsylvania and New York state.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 23, 1970: “Ponco Theatres, consisting of the Skyline Drive-In in East Stroudsburg, the Grand Theatre in East Stroudsburg and the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg, Pa., has been sold by Jack Luckey, owner-operator for the last ten years, to Tri State Theatres of Matamoras, Pa. Tri State Theatres is owned by Irving Hulst, who now operates a circuit of theatres in Pennsylvania and New York state.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 16, 1970: “The screen at the General Cinema Corp.’s first-run Meadows Drive-In toppled in a rainstorm, causing the theatre to close for five nights. The 2,070-car capacity Meadows is largest drive-in in Connecticut”
Weird note in the Feb. 16, 1970 issue of Boxoffice. The address is real but not near the drive-in - only on Youngstown, where it’s always been just a house in a residential neighborhood. Maybe it’s the owner’s home? But AFAIK, there is only one drive-in that matches the name, and it’s in Middleburg Heights.
“YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO - The Pearl Road Drive-In, 525 Glacierview Dr., is out of business. It last was operated by A. H. Stromeier.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 16, 1970: “Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Norton of Caldwell, Kas., were in (Oklahoma City) to confer with their agent Athel Boyter about the forthcoming seaso for their Bi-State Drive-In, located just this side of the Oklahoma-Kansas line. Fielding is also negotiating for a new screen tower to replace one destroyed by a storm in September. Otherwise, he told Boyter, his drive-in is in excellent condition for the new season.”
According to the Feb. 16, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, a shopping center was planned for the old Ridge Road Drive-In site at the northeast corner of Ridge Road and Cline Avenue. Developers were going to move the drive-in north “near the Colonial Golf Center” to make room for the shopping center.
But a 1973 aerial photo showed a drive-in at the same place as in the 1951 photo, so never mind?
Boxoffice, Feb. 16, 1970: “CAMPBELL, CALIF. - The city planning commission was slated to consider the deferred request of Syufy Enterprises for a zone change and use permit to allow a third screen for the Winchester Drive-In to be installed on property adjacent to the present airer at its mid-January meeting.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 16, 1970: “Manuel Duarte’s Hecker Pass Drive-In reopened recently with plans to feature American movies on Fridays and Saturdays and Spanish-language films on Sundays. During the opening weekend every car received a ticket for a free car wash.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 9, 1970: “Twin-Aire West Drive-In on Clinton Highway has been opened as the companion theatre to Twin-Aire East, which has been in operation since last fall. Twin-Aire West, which has a capacity of 512 speakers and 250 in-car heaters, was unveiled Christmas night with a cartoon carnival, "True Grit” and “My Side of the Mountain.” The other section of the Twin-Aire has speakers for 600 cars and 300 in-car heaters."
Boxoffice, Feb. 9, 1970: “Richard L. Davis has sold his 50 per cent interest in four theatres to Heartland Cinema Co. of Des Moines. The houses involved are the Wakonda Arcade Theatre, Des Moines; the Twixt-Town Drive-In, Marion, and the Century Cinema I and II in Ames.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 9, 1970: “Richard L. Davis … recently leased to Robert Fridley Theatres two Des Moines indoor houses, Eastgate Cinema I and II, and the Plantation Drive-In.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 9, 1970: “Family-type films for the teen population and other newer releases are planned for Cadillac’s Drive-In this year, according to James Chipman, the new manager. The drive-in was purchased by the Robert Goodrich Corp. early in January … Remodeling the concession stand is planned and they hope to have safe, gas, in-car heaters installed soon.”
Boxoffice, July 28, 1969: “NORCO, CALIF. - National General Theatre Corp. has acquired the Crest Drive-In Theatre here effective Wednesday (16), it was announced by William Hertz, NGC southern California division manager. Former operators were June Poynter and Associates. Alan Bamossy is district manager and Larry McMilon is manager.”
Atchison Globe, Nov. 18, 1990: “The Liberty Theatre in Horton ran its last show in the early 1980s according to Forrest Keener, one of a group of citizens who purchased the theater from Eddie Landau in the 1960s to try to keep it going. The building is now condemned and has barricade blocking the entrance. LeRoy Paden, mayor of Horton, said the city plans to tear it down.”
In the March 2, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, Martin Theatres president C. L. Patrick announced that his company had acquired a bunch of theaters from Floyd Enterprises. Among them was the Fun-Lan in Edgewater.
In the March 2, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, Martin Theatres president C. L. Patrick announced that his company had acquired a bunch of theaters from Floyd Enterprises. Among them was the Boulevard in “De Land.”
In the March 2, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, Martin Theatres president C. L. Patrick announced that his company had acquired a bunch of theaters from Floyd Enterprises. Among them was the No. 1 in South Daytona.
In the March 2, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, Martin Theatres president C. L. Patrick announced that his company had acquired a bunch of theaters from Floyd Enterprises. Among them was the Joy-Lan in Dade City. I wonder when (if?) Floyd got it back.
In the March 2, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, Martin Theatres president C. L. Patrick announced that his company had acquired a bunch of theaters from Floyd Enterprises. Among them was the Dale in Auburndale.
Looking through 1949 issues of the Eldon Advertiser, I can’t find any mention of a local drive-in, even though the indoor Tom’s Theatre and later the Grand Glaize Drive-In are there. I also checked some decent 1948 USGS aerial photos and didn’t see anything obvious. (That promising shape that Kenmore noted was empty land in ‘48.) I wonder whether the Film Daily Year Book got it wrong in 1947, or if it was some kind of backyard, temporary drive-in.
Boxoffice, March 2, 1970: “Fred Hickman, Windsor exhibitor, … took over the Corral Drive-In, Eldon, from Tom Edwards, effective February 19.”
Boxoffice, March 2, 1970: “Norman Edwards, Branson exhibitor, has closed and dismantled his Branson Drive-In.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 23, 1970: “Ponco Theatres, consisting of the Skyline Drive-In in East Stroudsburg, the Grand Theatre in East Stroudsburg and the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg, Pa., has been sold by Jack Luckey, owner-operator for the last ten years, to Tri State Theatres of Matamoras, Pa. Tri State Theatres is owned by Irving Hulst, who now operates a circuit of theatres in Pennsylvania and New York state.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 23, 1970: “Ponco Theatres, consisting of the Skyline Drive-In in East Stroudsburg, the Grand Theatre in East Stroudsburg and the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg, Pa., has been sold by Jack Luckey, owner-operator for the last ten years, to Tri State Theatres of Matamoras, Pa. Tri State Theatres is owned by Irving Hulst, who now operates a circuit of theatres in Pennsylvania and New York state.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 23, 1970: “Ponco Theatres, consisting of the Skyline Drive-In in East Stroudsburg, the Grand Theatre in East Stroudsburg and the Sherman Theatre in Stroudsburg, Pa., has been sold by Jack Luckey, owner-operator for the last ten years, to Tri State Theatres of Matamoras, Pa. Tri State Theatres is owned by Irving Hulst, who now operates a circuit of theatres in Pennsylvania and New York state.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 16, 1970: “The screen at the General Cinema Corp.’s first-run Meadows Drive-In toppled in a rainstorm, causing the theatre to close for five nights. The 2,070-car capacity Meadows is largest drive-in in Connecticut”
Weird note in the Feb. 16, 1970 issue of Boxoffice. The address is real but not near the drive-in - only on Youngstown, where it’s always been just a house in a residential neighborhood. Maybe it’s the owner’s home? But AFAIK, there is only one drive-in that matches the name, and it’s in Middleburg Heights.
“YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO - The Pearl Road Drive-In, 525 Glacierview Dr., is out of business. It last was operated by A. H. Stromeier.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 16, 1970: “Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Norton of Caldwell, Kas., were in (Oklahoma City) to confer with their agent Athel Boyter about the forthcoming seaso for their Bi-State Drive-In, located just this side of the Oklahoma-Kansas line. Fielding is also negotiating for a new screen tower to replace one destroyed by a storm in September. Otherwise, he told Boyter, his drive-in is in excellent condition for the new season.”
According to the Feb. 16, 1970 issue of Boxoffice, a shopping center was planned for the old Ridge Road Drive-In site at the northeast corner of Ridge Road and Cline Avenue. Developers were going to move the drive-in north “near the Colonial Golf Center” to make room for the shopping center.
But a 1973 aerial photo showed a drive-in at the same place as in the 1951 photo, so never mind?
Boxoffice, Feb. 16, 1970: “CAMPBELL, CALIF. - The city planning commission was slated to consider the deferred request of Syufy Enterprises for a zone change and use permit to allow a third screen for the Winchester Drive-In to be installed on property adjacent to the present airer at its mid-January meeting.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 16, 1970: “Manuel Duarte’s Hecker Pass Drive-In reopened recently with plans to feature American movies on Fridays and Saturdays and Spanish-language films on Sundays. During the opening weekend every car received a ticket for a free car wash.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 9, 1970: “Twin-Aire West Drive-In on Clinton Highway has been opened as the companion theatre to Twin-Aire East, which has been in operation since last fall. Twin-Aire West, which has a capacity of 512 speakers and 250 in-car heaters, was unveiled Christmas night with a cartoon carnival, "True Grit” and “My Side of the Mountain.” The other section of the Twin-Aire has speakers for 600 cars and 300 in-car heaters."
Boxoffice, Feb. 9, 1970: “Richard L. Davis has sold his 50 per cent interest in four theatres to Heartland Cinema Co. of Des Moines. The houses involved are the Wakonda Arcade Theatre, Des Moines; the Twixt-Town Drive-In, Marion, and the Century Cinema I and II in Ames.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 9, 1970: “Richard L. Davis … recently leased to Robert Fridley Theatres two Des Moines indoor houses, Eastgate Cinema I and II, and the Plantation Drive-In.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 9, 1970: “Family-type films for the teen population and other newer releases are planned for Cadillac’s Drive-In this year, according to James Chipman, the new manager. The drive-in was purchased by the Robert Goodrich Corp. early in January … Remodeling the concession stand is planned and they hope to have safe, gas, in-car heaters installed soon.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 9, 1970: “The West 11th Street Twin Drive-In Theatre which opened Aug. 6, 1969, was built by Moyer Theatres”
From the Feb. 17, 1969 issue of Boxoffice.
Boxoffice, July 28, 1969: “NORCO, CALIF. - National General Theatre Corp. has acquired the Crest Drive-In Theatre here effective Wednesday (16), it was announced by William Hertz, NGC southern California division manager. Former operators were June Poynter and Associates. Alan Bamossy is district manager and Larry McMilon is manager.”
Atchison Globe, Nov. 18, 1990: “The Liberty Theatre in Horton ran its last show in the early 1980s according to Forrest Keener, one of a group of citizens who purchased the theater from Eddie Landau in the 1960s to try to keep it going. The building is now condemned and has barricade blocking the entrance. LeRoy Paden, mayor of Horton, said the city plans to tear it down.”