Lake Shore Drive-In
100 Rickey Road,
Monticello,
IN
47960
100 Rickey Road,
Monticello,
IN
47960
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Lake Shore Drive-In (Official)
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Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Monticello Drive-In
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The Monticello Drive-In opened as a single screen in 1949. It was later renamed Lake Shore Drive-In and is now a twin screen theater with a car capacity of 570.
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They added a second screen in 2003.
Love this shot:
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You can tell they installed wings on the screen tower for showing Cinemascope pictures.
This drive-in opened as the Monticello Drive-In in 1949.
What a beautiful screen tower!
The lake Shore has made the conversion to digital projection according to their website.
When it opened in 1949, the Theatre Catalog listed Exec: A. E. Campbell Ct., capacity 400. 1952: A. L. Taylor and J. C. Rickey. 1955: H. A. Taylor.
The 1959 IMPA had A. L. Taylor and capacity 500. 1963: Marc Brazee. 1982: M. Brazee, capacity 400. 1988: M. Brazee, still listed as the Monticello.
Earle and Phyllis McLachlan bought the place around 2000. Was that when the name changed?
From the May 21, 1961 Logansport Pharos-Tribune (with OCR typos): “The Monticello Drive-in Theatr owned by Al Taylor and Cliffor Rickey has been sold to Marc Brazee of Greenwood, Indiana”
Sounds like they replaced the main screen during the 2013-14 off-season. An April 2014 article that misspells owner Earl McLachlan’s name, quotes him as saying, “We have the new screen up”. Google Street View from July 2015 shows the new screen, sturdier but less nostalgic than in previous photos here.