Quonset Drive-In
Namcook Road and Saw Mill Drive,
North Kingstown,
RI
02852
Namcook Road and Saw Mill Drive,
North Kingstown,
RI
02852
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If you go to the Map click on “View larger map”, click on “Google Maps” and go to “Satellite” at this new address, you will see that Saw Mill Drive curves around the outline of the Drive-In.
Approx. address for this drive-in was 6855 Post Road.
whoever did the streetview you are way off this view is Tower Hill Rd and Ten Road Rd, the drive-in was about 2 or 3 miles further north on Route 1 near Quonset. If you google “Devils Foot Road and Namcook Road North Kingstown RI” and point the camera north down Namcook that’s where the drive in was. The land is now a new cul-de-sac just behind Tarbox Toyota.
Boxoffice magazine item, June 26, 1954:
“Boasting a large panoramcic screen, the new Quonset Drive-In on Route 1 opposite Quonset naval station opened auspiciously, featuring a twin bill of "Rob Roy” and “Lili.” Scores of gifts, free ice cream for the kiddies and other novelties drew a capacity crowd…"
Item in Boxoffice magazine, November 6, 1954:
“The Quonset Drive-In while presenting "Three Forbidden Stories” suggested that children be left at home during this presentation."
[Note: that was an Italian-made film with three stories dealing with love and sex.}
A September, 1975 newspaper ad shared with the Boro Drive-In in South Attleboro, Massachusetts, promotes Games Guys Play along with Games Girls Play and the third feature, Roommates. $4.00 a carload.
I remember the Quonset Drive In well. I also remember the Hilltop Drive In just down/up Route 1. Which one closed first, the Quonset or the Hilltop? I remember one of the two of them was still standing long after it was abandoned. It was only fairly recently that the Quonset/Hilltop was leveled.
In May of 1959 they had a “daring” double bill called “Wasted Lives” (about unwed mothers) along with an interwoven color featurette called “The Birth of Twins.” A group of us went to see this program when we were seniors in high school. It pretty much played only at drive-ins like numerous similar packages of exploitation films masquerading as serious sex-ed.