Eastside Drive-In
3811 E. Main Street,
Columbus,
OH
43213
3811 E. Main Street,
Columbus,
OH
43213
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This opened on April 26th, 1946. First ad posted.
The front entrance next to Main Street is now an Aldi grocery store. The rest of the property appears to now be some sort of warehouse or light industrial district.
Oh, I understand now. You were referring to the Google Map, not the Historical Aerial. The Google map is definitely too far east.
The map location is at Main and Yearling, which is not at all consistent with either my memory of the place, or the aerial photo.
The map location is correct. The give-away is that diagonal train track that crossed Main Street just east of Barnett Road. That track was just at the Whitehall border.
The map location shown here looks wrong — way east of where it should be.
In the picture from HistoricAerials, the Eastside drive-in is on the right.
Uploaded aerial from 1957 showing Eastside and the In-Town Auto theater.
Can you create a page here for the In-Town? It is before my time in Columbus.
There were 3 Columbus-area drive-in’s in Whitehall:
In-Town @ 3651 E. Main Eastside @ 3811 E. Main (Miles) East Main @ 4750 E. Main
http://www.forgottenoh.com/driveinlist.html lists the address as 3811 East Main Street.
http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/ohteas9 also lists the theatre, with a car capacity of 350.