DavidZornig, There is an entry for the Lakewood Drive-In, under ‘Demolished’ Jeffersonville, Indiana theaters. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/45633
Perhaps it was posted after your entry above. The Lakewood Drive-In stood across the road, not far from the Sunset Mobile Home Park, on Charlestown Pike. The area has been greatly built up with various new home subdivision projects over the last 30 years or so.
According to the book “Clarksville, Indiana (Images of America series)” by Jane Sarles (published 2001), on page 85, she writes that the CLARKSVILLE DRIVE-IN THEATER was opened in April, 1950. The theater operated each season from April to early November. The drive-in was closed permanently “at the end of the 1984 season”.
By the way,to be accurate, the theater was located on the SOUTH side of Brown Station Way (formerly State Road 562 or “62”), which, if traveling TOWARD Louisville (in a south/southeasterly direction), the drive-in was on the RIGHT side of the highway, not the left side.
Currently (January 2015) the Clarksville Sewer Treatment Facility next to (to the northwest of) the site has been undergoing an expansion/renovation, which has meant that Midway Park (where the soccer field,walking path, swings and picnic tables were) has been completely obliterated. All trees chopped down, almost no remnants of the park are there, as new concrete retaining basins (or whatever they are called) are now being constructed. I have heard that the site of the Clarksville Drive-In (currently covered by huge piles of dirt) will be where a new park (or just a soccer field?) will be built, but I don’t know if this info is accurate.
Another bit of trivia…..on the site of Midway Park, along the south side of Brown Station Way, once stood a beautiful old two-story brown stone house. I think it was demolished sometime in the 1990s(?). Someone told me it was once owned by T.J. Atkins, owner of a quarry near Jeffersonville. Would love to see old pics of that house, or if anyone has more background info, please contact me @ .
DavidZornig, There is an entry for the Lakewood Drive-In, under ‘Demolished’ Jeffersonville, Indiana theaters. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/45633 Perhaps it was posted after your entry above. The Lakewood Drive-In stood across the road, not far from the Sunset Mobile Home Park, on Charlestown Pike. The area has been greatly built up with various new home subdivision projects over the last 30 years or so.
According to the book “Clarksville, Indiana (Images of America series)” by Jane Sarles (published 2001), on page 85, she writes that the CLARKSVILLE DRIVE-IN THEATER was opened in April, 1950. The theater operated each season from April to early November. The drive-in was closed permanently “at the end of the 1984 season”.
By the way,to be accurate, the theater was located on the SOUTH side of Brown Station Way (formerly State Road 562 or “62”), which, if traveling TOWARD Louisville (in a south/southeasterly direction), the drive-in was on the RIGHT side of the highway, not the left side.
Currently (January 2015) the Clarksville Sewer Treatment Facility next to (to the northwest of) the site has been undergoing an expansion/renovation, which has meant that Midway Park (where the soccer field,walking path, swings and picnic tables were) has been completely obliterated. All trees chopped down, almost no remnants of the park are there, as new concrete retaining basins (or whatever they are called) are now being constructed. I have heard that the site of the Clarksville Drive-In (currently covered by huge piles of dirt) will be where a new park (or just a soccer field?) will be built, but I don’t know if this info is accurate.
Another bit of trivia…..on the site of Midway Park, along the south side of Brown Station Way, once stood a beautiful old two-story brown stone house. I think it was demolished sometime in the 1990s(?). Someone told me it was once owned by T.J. Atkins, owner of a quarry near Jeffersonville. Would love to see old pics of that house, or if anyone has more background info, please contact me @ .