Berlin Drive-In
225 Wilbur Cross Highway,
Berlin,
CT
06037
225 Wilbur Cross Highway,
Berlin,
CT
06037
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The Berlin Drive-In was one of several terrific drive-ins on the Berlin Turnpike, which runs between Meriden and Hartford, CT. Before I-91 was completed in the early-1960’s, the Berlin Turnpike (US Route 5 and CT Route 15) was THE road between these two cities, and featured some tremendous 1950’s/1960’s googie architecture, neon, roadside attractions, and the like.
The Berlin Drive-In fit right in. It opened September 19, 1958 with Mickey Rooney in “Andy Hardy Comes Home” and Guy Madison in “Bullwhip”. It remained a first-run theater until sometime in the 1970’s, when the format changed to adult films exclusively. It was closed on December 31, 1987.
Demolished almost immediately in 1988 to make way for strip mall/big box development named Brickyard Plaza.
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I vaguely remember driving by the Berlin Drive-In once in it’s X-rated days just before it closed and seeing the screen and the fence. It was right down the road from the Hartford Drive-In and the Pike Drive-In. This would have been in the mid- to late-80’s.
I remember the Berlin Drive-In, I was too young to see the movies there. Home Depot and a very good Chinese buffet place is there now.
Here is an excerpt from the Hartford Courant dated May 11, 1968:
Theater Sold for $400,000
BERLIN — The Berlin Drive-in Theater at Rt. 5 and Deming Road, owned by Front Drive-In Theater Inc., has been sold to Darryl-Deb, Corp., according to records on file in the town clerk’s office.
This opened on September 19th, 1958. Grand opening ad can be found in the photo section.
Closed on December 31, 1987, demolished right afterward.
Now Brickyard Plaza. Please update.