Sinking Spring Drive-In
4870 Penn Avenue,
Sinking Spring,
PA
19608
4870 Penn Avenue,
Sinking Spring,
PA
19608
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Opened on 3/8/1955 with some colour cartoons(not named), “Many rivers to cross” and “prisoners of war”.
The obituary for Richard “Dick” Fox in the Reading Eagle implied that the Fox Theatres chain started with the Sinking Spring in 1957. “It was fate that brought Dick to Reading, where he built one of the largest independent movie theater empires and raised a family. Dick was living in Buffalo, N.Y., and drove a delivery truck for his father-in-law, Leo Katz, who had concession and drive-in movie theater businesses. In 1957, Dick jumped at the opportunity to run the Sinking Spring Drive-In.”
Grand Opening Newspaper Article.
Link to opening day article:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1955&dat=19550802&id=Nw0rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=v5oFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5906,347786&hl=en