O'Neill Drive-In

49230 873 Road,
O'Neill, NE 68763

Closed
1 screen
350 cars

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on July 3, 2021 at 2:43 pm

Built on the former spot of Danceland, the O'Neill Drive-In Theatre launched on June 5, 1952 with “Fort Defiance” supported by additional short subjects. Just ten days later, on June 15, 1952, a tornado destroyed the screen. It was soon rebuilt.

KenLayton
KenLayton on July 30, 2020 at 8:24 pm

Someone should re-open this theater.

dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on July 30, 2020 at 7:38 pm

The O’Neill Drive-In launched June. 1, 1952 and operated two weeks before a windstorm closed it temporarily. The theater was rebuilt and continued for 30 years into the beginning of the home video era.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on May 4, 2020 at 11:47 am

Same drive-in? Denver Post, June 16, 1952: “Near O'Neill, Neb., Sunday night (June 15), a freak twister destroyed a drive-in theater at an estimated loss of $8,000. The structure had been completed only two weeks ago.”

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on January 17, 2020 at 8:12 am

Boxoffice, June 29, 1957: “Frank Sheffield of Denver, Colo., has contracted for the purchase of the O'Neill Drive-In … from R. V. Fletcher. The transaction has been pending for some time. The O'Neill Drive-In was built in 1950 by Fletcher and has been operated by him since that time.”

kennerado
kennerado on November 18, 2019 at 4:33 am

Apart from a couple of paddock bomb cars on the front ramps, everything still looks the same as of 2017.