Park Drive-In
806 W. James Lee Boulevard,
Crestview,
FL
32536
806 W. James Lee Boulevard,
Crestview,
FL
32536
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The Park Drive-In was operating by 1955, when it was owned by L.E. Craig & Cecil Howard. It was owned by Neal Robinson in the 1960’s. Capacity was 350 cars. It had been closed and demolished by 1965.
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You bet.
Doesn’t look like the Park is listed on that site, only the Dixie.
Looks like there was a drive-in on S. Ferdon Boulevard just north of I-10. That area’s all big box stores and strip centers and has been since at least 1999.
I found two drive-ins on the 1956 aerial photos, one to the south of Crestview on S Ferdon Blvd and the other to the west on W James Lee Blvd. Not sure which one in the Park and which one is the Dixie, hoping maybe someone here can shed some light.
The drive-in to the south is definitely the larger of the two, so if I went by car size, the bigger one to the south would have been the Park, and the smaller one to the west would have been the Dixie. But that would just be a guess, and I’d like to have something more solid to go by.
I believe the Dixie was the one North of I-10. On my trips to Pensacola I turned left at Crestview heading to I10 and I would pass a drive in. When they played Gone with the Wind, all the marquee had was GWTW on it.
The Dixie was on south 85 where bigots is now. The Dixie was on James Lee Blvd which is west 90.
The address is:
806 W James Lee Blvd, Crestview, FL 32536
Completely gone by 1965.