Hill Drive-In
1331 E. Jefferson Street,
Quincy,
FL
32351
1331 E. Jefferson Street,
Quincy,
FL
32351
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The Hill Drive-In was located east of town on US 90, just west of the hospital. It was opened in 1951, when it had a 300-car capacity and its operator was Nat Williams, Interstate Entertainments.
The site is now a small mobile home park. There is an older building in the center of the property which was the projection booth/concession stand. It still stands in 2021.
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Thanks Mike.
Andy, was the drive-in at US 90 East at Hilltop DR?
Yep, that would be the address. The Gadsden County Historical Society told me it was immediately west of the hospital on US 90 east of town.
That’s great when we have the exact location!
You can drive up to the building in the center of the lot on Google Street View. Looks like the old projection booth to me. What do you guys think?
On February 28, 1958, the CinemaScope screen that was installed in 1955 was blown by high winds, which the theater installed another screen afterward.
That’s definitely a projection booth sitting atop what is probably the concession stand. Too bad the Google Street Photo is from 2007. It would be nice to see a more recent one.
By 1984, the drive-in was demolished save for the projection booth/concession stand. The foundation of the screen and ticket booth are still present.
The concession building still exists in an April 2021 aerial photo.
Boxoffice, Nov. 18, 1950: “QUINCY, FLA. - Construction is under way on a 250-car drive-in on the new Tallahassee highway less than a mile from town. Interstate Enterprises, operators of the Leaf, Shaw and Roxy theatres, as well as others in south Georgia, are building the drive-in.”
The projection booth/concession stand is still present in a June 2022 Google Street View. It was built to last, that’s for sure.