I’m really happy to have come across this site, as I’m writing a memoir about my life, and wanted some information about this drive-in.
From January of ‘88 to July of '88, I lived in a halfway house called Cassidy Place that was located on Samuell Blvd. In the map photo above, it was located north of Samuell at the 'Y’ shaped street across (north) from Grove Hill Rd. (Looks like they are apartments or townhomes now.) Many of us kids used to walk across Samuell and sit in the back corner of the graveyard at night and watch the movies from a distance. If I recall, there were occasional skin flicks, but our long running favorite was watching The Shining, which seemed to show with quite a bit of frequency.
Sounds very likely it was this drive-in. Oh, and there is likely no way this could be seen from I-30. Our halfway house say right at the fenced edge of I-30. We had to walk up a hill to get to Samuell, meaning that the theater was well above I-30, over a quarter of a mile away from the interstate, and buried in dense oak trees, and then slightly below the interstate… meaning a gentle hill covered in trees was between the highway and the theater.
Greetings,
I’m really happy to have come across this site, as I’m writing a memoir about my life, and wanted some information about this drive-in.
From January of ‘88 to July of '88, I lived in a halfway house called Cassidy Place that was located on Samuell Blvd. In the map photo above, it was located north of Samuell at the 'Y’ shaped street across (north) from Grove Hill Rd. (Looks like they are apartments or townhomes now.) Many of us kids used to walk across Samuell and sit in the back corner of the graveyard at night and watch the movies from a distance. If I recall, there were occasional skin flicks, but our long running favorite was watching The Shining, which seemed to show with quite a bit of frequency.
Sounds very likely it was this drive-in. Oh, and there is likely no way this could be seen from I-30. Our halfway house say right at the fenced edge of I-30. We had to walk up a hill to get to Samuell, meaning that the theater was well above I-30, over a quarter of a mile away from the interstate, and buried in dense oak trees, and then slightly below the interstate… meaning a gentle hill covered in trees was between the highway and the theater.