Airport Drive-In
156 Airport Road,
Negaunee,
MI
49866
156 Airport Road,
Negaunee,
MI
49866
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The Airport Drive-In opened July 3, 1955 with Sterling Hayden in “Flat Top” & Dana Andrews in “Smoke Signal”. It was operated by Delft Theatres. Closed on September 6, 1987 with Steve Martin in “Roxanne” & Kevin Costner in “The Untouchables”. This ozoner listed a car capacity at 700 with a single screen.
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Some photos of the ruins here:
http://tinyurl.com/y8reyk3
How many planes would it hold.
Tlsloews: I lol’d.
The snack bar is still standing, but the rest of the lot is vacant.
Personal recollections on Water Winter Wonderland indicate that the theater was still open in 1986.
This one opened on July 3, 1955.
Opened with “Flat top” and “Smoke signal”.
The Herald-Palladium (St. Joseph MI), Sept. 22, 2014: “In 1987, the once-mighty Airport Drive-In Theatre also closed after final showings of “Roxanne” and “The Untouchables” on Sept. 6(, 1987). One month later, (its owner, the Drive-In Theatre Corp.) sold the projection building, screen and entrance booth appraised at $40,000 for $20,000 to Marquette County. The county had leased 28 acres to the theater company since 1954 and it razed the drive-in for expanded development of an industrial park at the old airport … Today the Airport and Evergreen drive-in properties remain undeveloped, with … the concession building still standing at the Airport."