Black River Drive-In
28035 State Route 3,
Watertown,
NY
13601
28035 State Route 3,
Watertown,
NY
13601
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Soft opening free preview show on 17/8/1950 with 12 cartoons(not named). Oficial grand opening on 18/8/1950 with “Annie get your gun”.
Sylvan Leff died at the age of 72 in November 1986. Several mentions in the 1930s and 1940s put him with Universal; in 1936 he was with the Universal Home Exploitation Department. Leff was based in Albany and touched the lives of several drive-ins in New York.
From their website: Now projecting in full Digital Barco 32B quality! Address from their website: 28035 State Route 3 Watertown, NY 13601.
More information here
Also, uploaded pictures from there Facebook page.
If you enter the following address, it will map correctly to this drive-in: 28035 Black River Parkway, Watertown, NY 13601.
Check out the marquee now ! It has been completly refurbished!
http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150107671874417.283794.384859254416
The BLACK RIVER Drive-in was parking 600 cars at one time and was owned in 1956 by Sylvan Leff.
Cool ad on youtube!
Nice looking marquee/NOT! But at least their open.
Here is an ad for the theater on youtube:
http://tinyurl.com/27mk7gm
It is open. Here is a marquee photo:
http://tinyurl.com/2b5q6gu
So is it open now?
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