Lake Shore Drive-In
100 Rickey Road,
Monticello,
IN
47960
100 Rickey Road,
Monticello,
IN
47960
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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.
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”
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?
The lake Shore has made the conversion to digital projection according to their website.
What a beautiful screen tower!
This drive-in opened as the Monticello Drive-In in 1949.
You can tell they installed wings on the screen tower for showing Cinemascope pictures.
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They added a second screen in 2003.