22nd Street Drive-In
1401 S. Belvedere Avenue,
Tucson,
AZ
85711
1401 S. Belvedere Avenue,
Tucson,
AZ
85711
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The 22nd Street Drive-In was open in May 1954 with Walt Disney’s True Life Adventure “The Living Desert” & Dorothy McGuire in “Make Haste to Live”. Car capacity was listed at 450 cars. It was operated by Fox West Coast Theatres followed by Mann Theatres. The drive-in closed in 1979 and was demolished the same year.
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This opened on June 2nd, 1954.
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In about 1954, the 22nd Street Drive-In claimed to have the largest CinemaScope screen in the world.
Goggle Earth 1992
Boxoffice, May 15, 1954: “J. Harry Agron has opened his 600-car 22nd Street Drive-In in Tucson”
Opened on 30/5/1954 with “The living Desert”, “Ben and me” and “Make haste to live”.