Holiday Auto Theatre
1816 Old Oxford Road,
Hamilton,
OH
45013
1816 Old Oxford Road,
Hamilton,
OH
45013
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Holiday Auto Theatre (Official)
Additional Info
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Styles: Art Deco
Previous Names: Hamilton Outdoor Theatre
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
513.929.2999
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The Holiday Auto Theatre is a drive-in that opened on September 3, 1948 as the Hamilton Outdoor Theatre. The name was changed in 1951 to Holiday Auto Theatre. This drive-in has a capacity for 850 cars and is open all year.
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This theater may be gone soon, according to this article:
http://tinyurl.com/hrv9z
Recent death of owner Charles"Fred"Baum on Memorial Day 2007 at age 64 has not left the Holiday Auto Theatre with a dark screen. Current co-owner Gregory Reinhold and The Holiday employees continue to operate this venue as Fred would have wished, even though Baum put the Drive -In up for sale in 2006. This is Butler County’s only remaining Drive-In which Baum had purchased in 1995. At least the theatre is open for the summer season.
This Drive in is alive and well and does great business in the Cincinnati area. 2 gentleman looking for a drive in to operate found it in a national real estate listing and purchased it. They have kept up the year round films that Mr. Baum did and sometimes have retro weekends and special horror or other theme films all through the night. They are commited to keeping the place going. It is very family oriented as well.
The Holiday is still doing well in 2011…a link to their website:
http://www.holidayautotheatre.com/photos.php
I love going here…still going strong and shows first run double features!…sometimes triple features.
September 3rd, 1948 grand opening ad uploaded in the photo section.
The Holiday has made the conversion to digital projection.
Still a lot of fun and going strong! Affordable night out compared to the larger cinemas.
My sources are more confused than usual, possibly due to the cross-ownership between the Holiday’s owners and the owners of other drive-ins in Hamilton. Here are my notes from the Theatre Catalog and Motion Picture Almanac.
TC 1948-49: Hamilton Outdoor, Louis Aldt, 350
TC 1949-50: Hamilton Outdoor, L. E. Ott, 400
TC 1952: Outdoor DI, Marc Cummings and Ben Cohen, 400
MP 1953-54: Hamilton Outdoor, Theater Owners Corp., 350
TC 1955-56: Holiday Auto DI, Ben Cohen, 400
MP 1959: Hamilton Outdoor, L. Olt, 350
MP 1963: Hamilton Outdoor, L. Olt, 350 -and- Holiday Auto, 350
MP 1969-76: Holiday, 350
MP 1982: Holiday Auto, Holiday Amu., 485
MP 1984-88: Holiday Auto, Holiday Amuse. (which also owned the Colonial and Valley in Hamilton)
I need to get the overview written for the Holiday Auto Theatre.