Bath Drive-In
341 N. Walnut Street,
Bath,
PA
18014
341 N. Walnut Street,
Bath,
PA
18014
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Route 512 at Bath Boro line puts it across the street from the storage center. The address from Google Maps is (as close as I can get it) 34l N Walnut Street, Bath, PA.
A 1955 aerial shows the general shape of a drive-in, but no ramps and it’s difficult to see any real features. It has what might be a projection booth, but I cannot see any screen.
Today, the land is private property with a house on the SW corner. The rest of the property is overgrown with trees.
If this was a drive-in, it appears to have been abandoned by 1955 or perhaps it was a portable drive-in which might explain the lack of features.
Advertisements for this drive-in in 1949 state “route 512 at Bath Boro line” so it either relocated or didn’t last very long.
Uploaded a photo of a ticket stub.
Muviebuf, you say it’s on the right side Route 512 a quarter-mile north of Bath Pike?
That would put it near Barrall Street.
I’ve looked at aerials from 1955, 1962, and 1972 and have not seen anything that looks remotely like a drive-in. Of course, that doesn’t mean that the drive-in didn’t exist. I’m just not seeing it.
Thanks Muviebuf I thought it might have been where the storage locker place is at now?
There was only ever one drive-in in Bath Pennsylvania. It was located along Route 512 on the right side about ¼ mile north. The remanants of both the boxoffice and screen tower are still visible there. I do not know the name but believe it may have been identified as http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/23079 but that listing is not the correct location.
A 1955 aerial photo does not reveal any evidence of a drive-in around the Bath area. It would be helpful to have the address or at least a general direction of where the drive-in was located.
Perhaps this was a portable drive-in, but if so the screen should be set up somewhere or at least evidence of tire marks in a field.