Belmont Drive-In
314 McAdenville Road,
Belmont,
NC
28012
314 McAdenville Road,
Belmont,
NC
28012
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Mike: Thanks..will check it out online and perhaps a drive there.
It is U.S. 29 Diane Drive-in. I’ve always left the U.S. off. Also there is a street that runs by the old drive-in called Diane Drive-in road.Several years ago while exploring we noticed the sign on a back road behind the Drive-in. Road was a county road so i guess the name hasn’t changed. It was a short little by-pass.
I wish you could have seen the concession stand,it had a real wood burning fireplace made out of stone ibet from the North Carolina Mtns.
How is the Diane 29 Drive-In listed on CT as I couldn’t find it?
Mike: Ok..will read about it…thanks.
PATSY,Nearby is the Diane 29 Drive in in the same county.It is on CT and there is a strange sad story about that Drive in you might want to read.
Mike: Thanks for your additional input on this drive-in from the past that is still with us as so many aren’t anymore.
I might add The lady that runs it was real nice. I had a projectionist with me one night and he had ran that same equipment years ago and he made an adjustment on the projector,
She was a very trusting lady to let Charlie work on a minor adjustment. I told her she should print T SHIRTS and i think she said she did at one time. She Also said they had a web site.
When I get to Charlotte it is doing GREAT business in the Summer.Part of the screen was blown over by HURRICANE HUGO and was replaced using the siding on the fence.
If you get there late it is packed.There is another Drive in inKINGS MOUNTAIN,N.C. I guess it opens in the summer. The Belmont is operated by a local family.The only bad thing is last i was there and i am from Augusta is the Concession and rest rooms need some serious work.
They should be making enough to put back in the Drive in. Maybe they have fixed it,its been 3 years since i was last there.
I went by this theatre tonight enroute to see Christmastown USA…McAdenville NC. The sign said…Closed for the holidays so I knew it wasn’t closed, for good…only for the holidays! Great to read that it opened in 1946 and to see that it is still open and showing movies. Congratulations!
According to Bowers' “Encyclopedia of Automatic Musical Instruments” page 551, there was a “Iris” theatre in Belmont, equipped with a Reproduco organ made by the Operators Piano Co. I could not find a page for the Iris, so I am putting this here for the time being.