Address was 5913 N. Huron Rd. The snackbar has been replaced with a house last known to have been occupied by Norman VanWormer, who also owned the drive-in.
The site was bisected in the 1980s by a road called Mount Hope Road. Half of the site was obliterated in the late 1990s by a Holiday Inn Express. The other half is still a vacant field.
The theater indeed had an Acme address (49610), as the Holiday Inn Express is also an Acme address.
In 1993-1994, there were plans to build a Meijer store on the site, but it was canceled. A Presbyterian church was built on a portion of the lot ca. 1995, and a Citgo station in 1997. About 1/3 of the field remains unused; there is still a moonbeam light at the back of the lot, and the snackbar was still standing until 2005.
According to a friend who lived in Mikado in the 1950s, this was a portable drive-in. The movies were shown in one field one year, in a parking lot the next, etc. It never had a single, permanent location.
The “Iasca” is also a misspelling. It was called the Iosco, as that’s the county that Oscoda is in.
Unless I’m conflating it with another theater, the Iosco was at 216 S. State St. The site is now a vacant lot, but it was a bookstore until the early 2000s.
Still listed in Motion Picture Almanac in 1964.
HurON, not HurAN.
Address was 5913 N. Huron Rd. The snackbar has been replaced with a house last known to have been occupied by Norman VanWormer, who also owned the drive-in.
Opened in 1991 as an eight-screener. Expanded to nine between 1993 and 1997.
The site was bisected in the 1980s by a road called Mount Hope Road. Half of the site was obliterated in the late 1990s by a Holiday Inn Express. The other half is still a vacant field.
The theater indeed had an Acme address (49610), as the Holiday Inn Express is also an Acme address.
Also, the “Mini-Art” is listed in a 1971 phone book. A “Showcase Theater” is listed at the same address in 1976.
Address was 2005 N. US-23.
In 1993-1994, there were plans to build a Meijer store on the site, but it was canceled. A Presbyterian church was built on a portion of the lot ca. 1995, and a Citgo station in 1997. About 1/3 of the field remains unused; there is still a moonbeam light at the back of the lot, and the snackbar was still standing until 2005.
According to a friend who lived in Mikado in the 1950s, this was a portable drive-in. The movies were shown in one field one year, in a parking lot the next, etc. It never had a single, permanent location.
The “Iasca” is also a misspelling. It was called the Iosco, as that’s the county that Oscoda is in.
Unless I’m conflating it with another theater, the Iosco was at 216 S. State St. The site is now a vacant lot, but it was a bookstore until the early 2000s.