TePee Drive-In
Liverpool Road,
Pickering,
ON
L1V
Liverpool Road,
Pickering,
ON
L1V
3 people
favorited this theater
Showing 6 comments
The Tepee actually closed on November 6, 1983 with “Strange Invaders” and “Meteor”. It was sold the following year in 1984 and was demolished to make way for commercial developement that same year.
This was owned by Holiday drive ins from Buffalo.
17 years too late but the comment above from dgordon from 2002 about the Bay Ridges drive-in which was close by and shut down in 1974 cannot be correct. The Bay Ridges page here on Cinema Treasures has several ad photographs including one from an April 1979 issue of the Toronto Star listing the Buck Rogers movie at Bay Ridges.
Opened with “40 pounds of trouble” and “Diamond head”.
November 28th, 1963 grand opening ad as Canada’s first all-weather drive-in in photo section.
This drive-in has an interesting past. It was operated by 20th Century theatres, and was located beside Pickering Town Centre. On the other side of Pickering Town Centre, there was another drive-in called the Bay Ridges which was operated by Canadian Odeon. 20th Century took Canadian Odeon to court alleging that the screen for the Bay Ridges was located too close to Hwy 401 by 6 inches! 20th Century won, causing Canadian Odeon to either move the screen for the Bay Ridges or close it. They opted to close it in 1974, leaving the Tepee to operate for years to come.