Motor View Drive-In
429 Berwick Hazleton Highway,
Nescopeck,
PA
18635
429 Berwick Hazleton Highway,
Nescopeck,
PA
18635
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The entire site is now Lenape Park. It has been landscaped with some structures added to the property.
All evidence that a drive-in existed there is gone. Save for one small section of the original entrance road that extends about 20 feet from the main road into the property before it disappears. Also, the Nescopeck Township sign could have been the original marquee.
My grandfather was a projectionist there and I was learning to be one. And got to spend quality time with my grandfather. Loved that place.
The final film was a double feature of chicken run and Thomas and the magic railroad
Opened(first time) after a soft launch, with a Cinemascope short(not named), a cartoon(not named) , and “The racers”. Actoress Betsy Blair(from the film “Marty) was there in person on grand opening night.reopened on 2/7/1971 with "Mash” and “Patton”.
Update: Now Nescopeck Township offices @ 429 Berwick Hazleton Hwy, Nescopeck, PA 18635.
Please update.
screen has since been demolished. the ramps still remain!
Closed in 1967 and reopened on July 2nd, 1971.
Motor View reopening Fri, Jul 2, 1971 – Page 21 · Standard-Speaker (Hazleton, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com
Thank you for these memories. My grandfather, Anthony Sacco, built and operated the Motor Vu drive-in theater, and my mother worked there for many years. I worked there some years while I was growing up, and I spent two full summers working at their other drive in, Laurel, in Hazleton in the 1970s.
This opened on July 9th, 1955. Grand opening ad in photo section.
There are some additional pictures on this theater’s gallery page at Drive-ins.com.
Approx. location for this drive-in was Pennsylvania 93 & Old Berwick Hwy.
The Cinestage Group, Jack Oberleitner, Tom Poling and others) operated the Motor Vu for one season in 1973. Very profitable!
Ran many “dusk to dawn” shows. Concession stand sold out completely for Beatles D to D marathon. :–)
See also Capitol, Milton, PA.
Sadly, the screen is now gone.