Beach Drive-In
69 E. Shore Drive,
Lake George,
NY
12845
69 E. Shore Drive,
Lake George,
NY
12845
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Previous Names: 9-L Drive-In Beach Theatre
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Located on Route 9L, the Beach Drive-In was a small, long gone drive-in theatre in this vacation area. It opened on July 19, 1950 with Wayne Morris in “The Big Punch” & Ronald Reagan in “The Girl From Jones Beach”. It was closed from 1953 and reopened in May 1956 as the 9-L Drive-In Beach Theatre. It finally closed on August 8, 1961 with Clark Gable in “Gone With ther Wind”.
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The address for this theater was 69 East Shore Drive, Lake George, NY 12845.
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Opened on 19/7/1950 with a cartoon(not named), “The big punch” and “The girl from Jones Beach”. Closed in 1961. Demolished(date unknown?). Site is now Lake George Elementary School.
Apparently the Beach took a break for a while. From the Feb. 18, 1956 Motion Picture Herald:
LAKE GEORGE, N.Y.: The Beach Drive-in here, closed for the past three years, will reopen in May, it is announced by Joseph Mirasola, who operates the Warren, a conventional closed theatre, in Warrensburg.
A 1965 aerial shows the screen gone, although the projection booth/concession stand is still intact.
By 1986, the elementary school had been built on the property. No trace of the drive-in remains.
That school is Lake George Elementary. Its address, 69 Sun Valley Dr, is an excellent choice for the Beach’s address.
After advertising regularly in the 1950 and 1951 seasons, the Beach was absent from the Glenns Falls Post-Star in 1952-1955.
The 9L Beach Drive-In (re)opened in 1956. In later years, it added a hyphen, advertising as the 9-L Beach. Its final ad in the Post-Star was Tuesday, Aug. 8, 1961, showing “Gone With the Wind.”
Reopened in May 1956 as 9L Drive-in with “Wichita” and “Annapolis story”.