Hamptons Drive-In
2044 Montauk Highway,
Bridgehampton,
NY
11932
2044 Montauk Highway,
Bridgehampton,
NY
11932
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Previously operated by: Associated Prudential Theaters Inc., United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
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This theater was located in Bridgehampton, Long Island. It opened on July 1, 1955 with Clark Gable in “Soldier of Fortune” & Greer Garson in “Strange Lady in Town” It was closed in the early-1980’s. It was demolished and the Bridgehampton Commons Shopping Center was built on the property.
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I never had the opportunity to go to this drive-in. It closed down before I ever got my driver’s license. However, I can still remember the remake of KING KONG playing there in early 1977 and begging, begging, begging my parents to drive us to Bridehampton to see it again. You see, at age 9, this was my favorite movie, until STAR WARS came around and changed everything!
I never realized that that shopping center was once a drive in.
And referencing Bway’s 2004 posting both the Coram and Patchogue Multiplexes on the sites of former drive-in have also closed. You can see the Coram from the road but the Patchogue was never visible from Sunrise Highway. All you can see is the pylon and a fence.
My parents took my sister and I to quite a few movies there in the late ‘70’s and early '80’s during the summertime when we spent the weekends at our grand parents house in the hamptons. It was so much fun sitting in chairs outside watching movies on a huge screen! The first movie I know I saw there when I was 6 years old was Star Wars in 1977 and became a huge fan ever of the series ever since. Meatballs with Bill Murray was another one I remember seeing there as well as a few others. Its too bad that it closed down. I have been to the shopping center to shop and the memories of the times there really come back to me when we shop there. Have not seen too many drive-ins around since this one.
Westbury was the last on Long Island. There are still some upstate and in Ct. They’re more popular in other parts of the country.
Opening ad shows Hampton’s. Pylon didn’t have the apostrophe.
Sunset photo found on Drive-Ins.com uploaded.
Our family had a summer house in the Noyak section of Southampton where we would go for vacation on the 4th of July and 2 weeks in August. Every year my dad would take us to this drive in, sort of a family tradition. We saw many movies over the years, The Guns of Navarone, The Undefeated, Where Eagles Dare to name a few. We stopped going in the early 70’s because we were getting ‘to old’ to go to a drive in with our parents. Lots of good memories.
Opened On July 1st, 1955; Grand Opening Ad Already Posted.
It’s interesting that the opening ad read “Hampton’s” when the pylon and subsequent ads read “Hamptons”.