Ruskin Family Drive-In
5011 Highway 41 N,
Ruskin,
FL
33572
5011 Highway 41 N,
Ruskin,
FL
33572
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Ruskin Family Drive-In (Official)
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Previously operated by: Floyd Theaters
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Rustic Drive-In
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
813.645.1455
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The Ruskin Family Drive-In was opened on April 16, 1952 with Gene Kelly in “Singing in the Rain”. By 1957 it had been renamed Rustic Drive-In. It was taken over by the Floyd Theaters chain in April 1960. It is now independently operated. Its screen was blown down by Hurricane Milton on October 8, 2024. The owners say it will be rebuilt.
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it was at a danger of closing last year due to the lights of the parking lot at the publix’s supermarket next year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2F2nSFrEI0
Boxoffice, April 4, 1960: “A new member of the Floyd (Theatres) circuit is the Ruskin Drive-In, Ruskin, which formerly was operated by Harry Jones”
The Tampa Bay Times ran an article about Ted Freiwald, who owns the Ruskin Family Drive-In with his wife Karen. According to the Times, the drive-in opened on April 16, 1952, Freiwald’s 19th birthday.
Does this theater have 1.85 flat and 2,36 scope capabilities?
This is a fantastic place to go to the drive-in theater with your wife girlfriend boyfriend family. The owners are very friendly. Everything at the snack bar is delicious and very reasonably priced. I always get something at the snack bar when I go to the drive-in theater when visiting a friend in Florida. Ticket sales go right back to the studio so that Theatre makes next to nothing on tickets. So grab a popcorn candy soda cheeseburger french fries hotdog. Enjoy a movie under the stars
Moviefan Is it still operated by Floyd Theaters? Also, do they have actual real scope. I hated Floyd theaters because their idea was the screen had to be full all the time so and scope pictures were off the screen. It was so ridiculous
Nope…Floyd Theatres are long gone. Ted Freiwald bought the drive-in when Floyd Theatres got sold. Ted and is wife operate it now.
Drive-In 54 Can they actually show scope films in scope on the screen?
The Ruskin Drive-In lost it’s screen tower from Hurricane Milton. They are going to rebuilt the screen tower and other damaged items.
This drive-in was once known as the Rustic Drive-In. A 1957 movie flyer posted here by Drive-In 54 used that name. “Rustic” was the name given in a 1959 movie list in the Tampa Tribune, also in the April 8, 1960 note in the Tampa Bay Times when Carl Floyd bought the place from Harry Jones.
These days, the Ruskin is reopening soon, and WFLA has posted a very nice Youtube video to prove it.