Montrose Drive-In

DavidZornig on July 26, 2019 at 6:39 am

Do a Google street view, and you will see the drive-in is now a Chili’s restaurant with a Barnes & Noble across the street. Scroll around from there, and you can see what other businesses are near where it was. There is a Stricklands II Frozen Custard at 3985 Medina Road nearby, but that chain was started in 1936 in Akron.

If you do a search of The Freez/Akron Ohio, only the below 2009 articles mentions it as having been sold by Ratener in the `70s. It also says the drive-in marquee was 66 feet tall, and that he opened the property to flea markets as well which proved to be successful. The second has additional history and photos of Lou Ratener and his wife Yerma at the box office which I uploaded to the gallery.

http://www.akron.com/akron-ohio-community-news.asp?aid=6072

http://www.akron.com/akron-ohio-community-news.asp?aID=6017

DavidZornig on July 23, 2019 at 9:07 pm

Per Akron History:

Sat on 44 acres. Closed September 1986.