Meadows Drive-In
92 Weston Street,
Hartford,
CT
06120
92 Weston Street,
Hartford,
CT
06120
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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”
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Opened with some colour cartoons(not naned), “Lord of the jungle”, and “The private war of Major Benson”.
A note in the June 26, 1957 Motion Picture Daily said that Joseph O'Neill had been named assistant to Joseph Bresnahan, resident manager of the “2,070-car capacity Meadows Drive-In, Hartford.”
August 10th, 1955 grand opening ad in the photo section.
The above photo was probably taken around the time that my father, Nathan Hern, left his position as manager of the Meadows to run the Hollowbrook, another drive-in in Westchester County, NY.
The drive-in entrance itself was on the highway east of Weston. Boce Barlow as well as Jennings did not exist when this drive-in was open.
The intersection above is actually in the middle of where the theatre stood.
Boce Barlow Way & Weston St, Hartford, CT 06120
The above address will map accurately to the location of the drive-in.
Here is a 1962 aerial photo of the drive-in, courtesy of Earth Explorer and USGS.