Sunset Drive-In

There was a second, short-lived drive-in in Wellington. M. D. Unterback, or something close to that name, built the 300-car Sunset Drive-In in the summer of 1952. In December 1956, he ran a classified advertisement that read, “For sale, complete drive-in theatre. Dirt cheap, must be moved. M. D. Otterback, Wellington, Kas.”

In between, the 1955-56 Theatre Catalog included the Sunset Drive-In in Wellington. It was owned by Dewey Utterback and C. R. Gregg.

A 1956 aerial photo showed a drive-in about a mile north of Wellington. By 1968 it had been replaced by farmland with no trace of a theater, which is how it looks today. There’s a towing service across the street from the site; that’s the address above.

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