Dixie Lee Drive-In

110 S. Watt Road,
Knoxville, TN 37934

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tntim
tntim on August 28, 2022 at 4:00 pm

Fotomac, The movies playing on July 15, 1977 were “Spicy L.A.”, and “Forbidden Pleasures”.

Fotomac
Fotomac on February 17, 2021 at 9:04 pm

Can anyone remember what the feature was for the week of 15 July, when Star Wars came to town?

tntim
tntim on November 25, 2014 at 8:17 am

I posted a picture of the marquee in the photo section.

Drive-In 54
Drive-In 54 on July 8, 2012 at 12:22 am

Added Goggle Earth view from 1991.

The address for the drive-in is:

110 S Watt Rd, Knoxville, TN

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on January 6, 2012 at 4:02 pm

Thanks Nimrod,like up dates from K-town.

nimrod
nimrod on January 5, 2012 at 4:55 pm

Dixie Lee Drive-in continued to show mostly soft X-rated movies with an occasional hard X as a special late feature on into the early 1980’s.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on March 15, 2010 at 6:47 pm

It truly is amazing the screens you see from the past covered in moss in many rural towns like the Midway or Newport Drive-in. I have traveled that area even before the interstates as a kid and I remember Drive-ins almost carved into Mountains. Moonshine and drive-ins.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on March 15, 2010 at 6:21 pm

Tlsloews you guys and North Carolina have alot of Drive-ins and I have seen alot in East Tenn.

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on March 15, 2010 at 6:14 pm

I did not know Tennessee had so many drive-ins at one time.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on March 14, 2010 at 6:23 pm

The Dixie-Lee was considered a Knoxville theatre.Sept 19 1967 showing on that outdoor screen was Barbara Steele in “THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK”. and second feature on the “FESTIVAL OF FEAR” was “THE AWFUL DR.ORLOF”. This was playing day and date with the RIVER BREEZE Drive-in.

tntim
tntim on August 7, 2009 at 12:57 pm

The Dixie Lee Drive-In was in Knox County, Lenoir City is in Loudon County. The 37934 zip code is considered Knoxville. If the site had been just a few yards to the west, it would have been in Loudon County and the zip would have been 37772 which is a Lenoir City zip code.

Silicon Sam
Silicon Sam on August 7, 2009 at 12:30 am

The drive-in was right where the large white building is now in the center of this link:

HERE

1992 imaging shows it there.

bbrown1
bbrown1 on August 6, 2009 at 8:36 pm

I have seen mention of a Dixie Lee Drive-In Theatre in Lenoir City TN, but I am assuming it is this same drive-in, as it was actually located closer to the small town of Lenoir City that it was Knoxville