Comments about Hempstead Turnpike Drive-In in Bethpage, NY

robboehm on October 4, 2020 at 7:51 pm

Not so David. Never known as Bethpage Drive-In. Always a question, however, whether it was in Bethpage or Plainedge.

davidcoppock on October 4, 2020 at 7:45 am

Also known as Bethpage Drive-in.

davidcoppock on October 4, 2020 at 7:44 am

Opened on 27/4/1950 with “The Babe Ruth story” and “Blonde dynamite”. Closed in 1963. Demolished to make way for the Hempstead Turnpike/Sea-Ford Oyster Bay Expressway Interchange.

jwmovies on January 29, 2019 at 7:21 am

A more accurate address for this theater/racetrack would be 4400 Hempstead Turnpike, Bethpage, NY 11714. This points to the entrance road. This also points to the freeway interchange at the southwest quadrant.

Please update.

Comfortably Cool on May 27, 2018 at 3:02 pm

Advertised as Prudential’s Hempstead Drive-In in a 1958 newspaper ad displayed here

RSB on December 26, 2011 at 8:46 am

Yes, the address is a bit misleading, and the theater was torn down to make way for the impending highway project. This Drive-In theater was located where the entrance ramp is now to the northbound Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway/Rt.135 from eastbound Hempstead Turnpike. This theater is my earliest theater memory I have. My parents went to see a movie there, and they opted out from getting a babysitter for me (I was around 4 or 5), so they took me with them and I slept in the backseat of their big old maroon Packard. The Drive-In was across the street from Zorn’s and a little to the east.

robboehm on October 29, 2011 at 8:43 pm

The address is a bit misleading. The Seaford-Oyster Bay Expressway did not exist when the Drive-In was operationaly. I believe that the Drive-In was demolished as part of the Seaford-Oyster Bay construction project, if anyone has access to that data.

Mike Rogers on January 18, 2011 at 10:54 pm

It was owned by Hempstead Theatre Op. Corp. in 1956.

robboehm on February 19, 2009 at 11:47 am

The actual name of the theatre was the Hempstead Turnpike Drive In. I always thought that the actual town was Plainedge but I prefer to quibble about the name which is what really counts.

wally 75 on July 25, 2008 at 6:40 am

BETHPAGE DI OPEN TUES NIGHTS THIS SUMMER…

BLOW UP SCREEN. SOUND SYSTEM..AND FM CAR RADIO SOUND..

MORE TO FOLLOW…OR CHECK WITH VILLAGE AND OR TOWN OF

BETHPAGE…

[Deleted] on November 7, 2004 at 5:10 pm

I show an opening date of 1946. There is no listing for this theatre after 1957.