Tucson 5 Drive-In
1055 W. Grant Road,
Tucson,
AZ
85705
1055 W. Grant Road,
Tucson,
AZ
85705
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The Tucson 4 opened on Feb. 11, 1974, according to a long article about the drive-in in the Feb. 25 issue of Boxoffice.
The hardtop which replaced this drive-in (just like Redwood City, CA & Las Vegas, NV) is now also closed.
I also made a video of grand opening ads, which can be seen at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONVEokXHXZA
There was some big delay in building this drive-in.
1967 aerial at View link you can see the ramps under construction
and clicking on the 1972 button you can see it look abandoned.
February 7th, 1974 grand opening ad is at
View link
1980 color aerial photo is at
View link
This webpage has quite a bit of information about the Tuczon 5 and has some pictures. According to the information here, the theater was closed in 1982. http://www.driveinmemories.com/drivein/tuc4di.htm
I wonder if the theater was designed by Vincent Raney who designed the Cinedomes built by Syufy/Century; that snackbar interior reminds me of those theaters.
There are some pictures of this drive-in’s site and newspaper ads on its gallery page at Drive-ins.com: http://www.drive-ins.com/gallery/azttusc