Tanner Drive-In
1300 E. 3rd Street,
Pana,
IL
62557
1300 E. 3rd Street,
Pana,
IL
62557
1 person
favorited this theater
Showing 5 comments
I think it’s really nice that the entirety of the old drive-in site is now Tanner Park, with a softball diamond, a baseball diamond, and a soccer field.
Lewis Tanner opened the Tanner Drive-In on August 15, 1950 with “The Streets of Laredo.” The venue’s last ad was the September 8, 1991 double feature of “Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey” and “FX2”.
The screen support foundation may still exist in the corner of one of the fields.
There was a lengthy article about “Tanner’s Drive-In Theater” in the July 16, 1989 edition of Springfield IL’s State Journal-Register. It said the drive-in opened in 1950.
At the time of the article, Tanner’s operated Fridays through Sundays. The manager was Rose Tanner, whose father Harry and uncle Herman built the drive-in.
1956 USGS photo uploaded here.