Silver Dollar 3 Drive-In
5310 San Mateo Boulevard NE,
Albuquerque,
NM
87109
5310 San Mateo Boulevard NE,
Albuquerque,
NM
87109
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A closer address is 5310 San Mateo Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM.
The Villas at La Privada currently occupy the site of the drive-in. The old entrance/exit road is now used as the entrance/exit for the Villas.
The marquee for the Villas is located in almost the exact same spot as the marquee for the old drive-in. But given how new the foundation appears, it is not the same.
I couldn’t find any Silver Dollar ads in the Albuquerque Journal after Sept. 2, 1980. Spot checks in the summer of 1981 turned up nothing.
Albuquerque Tribune, Sept. 16, 1982: “The former Silver Dollar Drive-In movie theater off San Mateo Boulevard N. E. is on its way to becoming a high-rise apartment complex.”
Closed in 1983, Oak Tree Apartments now occupies the site.
The site(now demolished completly?) is a car dealership(Fiat of Albuquerque).
Opened on 6/11/1963 with “The big circus”. The opening night was free admission. Opened on 24/9/1975 on screen 1 with “Dirty Mary, crazy Larry” and “The hot rock”, screen 2 with “The Great Gatsby”, and screen 3 with “Murder on the Orient Express”.
September 24th, 1975 grand opening as a 3-screen drive-in also in photo section.
This opened on November 6th, 1963. Its grand opening ad can be found in the photo section.
The Albuquerque Silver Dollar drive-in marquee was 14 feet above the ground and had platforms to stand on to change it. Unless they raised it after that photo was taken. I changed it many times but also left it for Rick West to change if I didn’t get off work till after 3:00 AM.
Dan Rushing
Sorry to disapoint you. But that Marquee is Not the Silver Dollar Drive In. On San Mateo Albuq.NM. My dad was the Gen. Mgr. of the Terrace, Wyoming, Duke City,Tesque, and Silver Dollar drive in’s, from 1963-1975. I worked at all 5 drive ins.
Address above is incorrect. The entrance (still in use) is further south @ 5400. The business park to the east of this is where the drive-in stood.
A third screen was later added,it closed when Syufy entered the area
Here is a better path to above mentioned link. To view photo type in words “Silver Dollar”,
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