Valley Drive-In
Woodstock Road,
Springhill,
NB
E3C 1R1
Woodstock Road,
Springhill,
NB
E3C 1R1
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The Valley Drive-In was opened on July 23, 1951 with Marjorie Main & Percy Kilbride in “Ma and Pa Kettle”. A note in the August 22, 1953 issue of Boxoffice read, “Ashley Burnett of Springhill, N. B. … is offering milk and cream from his own herd of cows at his drive-in theatre, located on a farm he has operated for some years about five miles north (sic) of Fredericton on the St. John river bank. Incidentally, this was the first open-air film theatre in the maritimes.”
Springhill is on the St. John River, about five miles west of Fredericton.
The 1955 Motion Picture and Television Almanac listed the Valley Drive-In in Springhill with a capacity of 400 cars, owner Ashley Burnett. The Vally Drive-In wasclosed on October 9, 1987.
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The Valley Drive-In located on Woodstock Road is the first drive-in theater in the Fredericton area when it opened its gates on July 23, 1951 with Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride in “Ma & Pa Kettle” (unknown if extras added).
It was last operated by Jim Paton, who also operated the nearby Sunset Drive-In in the Fredericton suburb of Nashwaaksis until the Sunset’s closure after the 1986 season, leaving the Valley Drive-In the only operating drive-in theater in the Fredericton area until the end of the following season.
The Valley Drive-In closed on October 9, 1987 with the dusk-to-dawn showings of “The Secret of My Success”, “Jaws - The Revenge”, “Born in East L.A.”, and “Evil Dead 2 - Dead by Dawn”.