Bay Shore Sunrise Drive-In

Actually the full name of this theatre was The Bayshore Sunrise Drive In.

The Bayshore Sunrise Drive In opened in early 1962 by the Prudential Theatre Ciruit as the second Indoor/Outdoor theatre built in the U.S., the first being the Johnny All-Weather in Copaigue. In addition to the indoor screen on the drive-in property, there was also a free-standing theatre called the Cinema next door. This whole area of entertainment was called Prudential's Cinema City. That company's Fifth Avenue Drive In on Fifth Avenue was closed shortly after the opening of the Bayshore Sunrise Drive In. The Indoor theatre on the Drive-In property was demolished to add an additional screen to the Drive-In in 1979 by United Artists, who absorbed the Prudential Circuit empire in 1968. The Drive-In lasted until the late 1980's and the Cinema Bayhore (as it was known as and not to be confused with the Bayshore Theatre on Main Street) closed in 1990. The Cinema hosted "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" for many years on Friday and Saturday evenings. The grosses for the two midnight shows
were more than the totals of the Cinema and Drive-In grosses for the WEEK! I am sure without "Rocky Horror", the Cinema would have folded much sooner. When both were closed, I photographed the sites and soon after the entire "Cinema City" was reduced to rubble. The Cinema had a golden curtain which was working until the end. It also a facade of glass that enabled people to see the inside lobby of the theatre. A Pier-1 Imports occupies the Cinema site and a Waldbaum's Supermarket sits on the Drive-In property.

I for got all about the two indoor cinemas on the property. Did the screen inside the drive in play the same film as the drive in till it was torn down? I remember Cinemas Bayshore I think I might have seen Rocky Horror there with friends from Stoneybrook. I guess we should make a listing for it.

Initially, the Drive-In and it's Indoor Theatre played the same double bill, with the Drive-In showtimes at roughly 7 PM and 11 PM and the co-feature at 9 PM, while the Indoor screened the main feature at 9 P.M. and the co-feature at 7 PM and 11 PM. Therefore, the prints where constantly in use (Continuously between the two screens). The booth to the drive-in was incorporated into the indoor theatre with the snack bar. When buying tickets, you needed to specify indoor or outdoor so that the correct tickets were issued and there was a doorman on duty to make sure outdoor customers weren't using the indoor theatre. Later on in the 1970's, two seperate double bills played the Indoor and Outdoor theatres. The Cinema next door was a seperate theatre from the drive-in, even though it was next door and had it's own staff. The staff was known to work both locations.

The address for the Bayshore Sunrise Drive In was
1881 Sunrise Highway, Bay Shore, NY.

I HAVE A PROTEST;
I went to the Bayshore Sunrise in its final days. They were great times,just me and the 1972 Cutlass I bought in 1986. I would sit there with the radio playing, watching some great movies.

I would like to say how grand United Artists Cinemas is. They are the grandest bunch of idiots for closing the drive in movies on Long Island. They could not capitalize on the nostalgia craze that I am happy to be part of. Today we yearn for earlier times, even times before our own. Chuck the modern multiplex, no matter how nice they are, bring back the Long Island Drive In. By the way, would someone who has information on the Patchogue Sunrise please send it to this site. I was there, and, if I knew the theater's history I would do it.
Thank You

The Patchogue Sunrise Drive-In is being talked about under the UA Movies at Patchogue 13 which is the megaplex that was built on the drive-in site. Interestingly, one of the Multiplex's auditoriums (the biggest one) is still the Patchogue Sunrise Drive-in's indoor theater. They built the multiplex onto the old indoor theater. The concession stand is even outside all cemented up.
There's no seperate entry for the Drive In because the UA Movies at Patchogue IS the Patchogue Drive In.
See here for the Patchogue Drive-In:
http://www.cinematreasures.org/theater/7828/

BTW, I believe that along with the Bay Shore Theatre, the Drive in should really be listed as two words, "Bay Shore", and the town also as "Bay Shore", which is the proper spelling. I tried to find these two theaters yesterday under "Bay Shore" and couldn't find them.

Hi Bway;
How are things on the great white way? (Laugh) Somebody should've told them over at the Movies and Patchogue, I finally got through. By the way, I live on Long Island, it is Bayshore, one word.

My Broadway is the one in Brooklyn, not the great white way, and Bay Shore is definitely two words..... :)

Map Quest, the LIRR, and any map I have ever seen says "Bay Shore". There is no Bayshore on Long Island, only Bay Shore.

Okay;
It's also on the internet the way you spell it, I guess I was wrong

Here are some pics of the Theatre before they razed it and put up a Home Depot and Senior Citizen Housing
http://www.eastislip.org/sunrise_drive_in.htm

Orlando..
Was the 5th Ave DriveIn you mention on 5th Ave in Bayshore? Do you know where?

You mention an Indoor Theatre on the property in addition to the Cinema which stood out on the Highway? Where was this building? I don't recall it at all.

Also "The booth to the drive-in was incorporated into the indoor theatre with the snack bar"

I recall (and the pics show) a separate ticket booth as you came in.. the snack bar stood alone.

Please refresh my memory!! (Whats left of it!!)

Did you buy the tickets for the indoor theatre at the same box office as you did for the drive-in?

There was a seperate Theatre called the Cinema at the edge of Sunrise Hwy. It seems from whats written above that there was an additional indoor theatre on the Drive-In grounds further North. I don't recall it. I only remember the one ticket booth, the one in the pics. I wish Orlando would set me straight!

I don't recall the indoor screen there either. I remember the earliest movie I saw there as a kid was "Barefoot In The Park". I also remember they had a miniature golf course there too which we would go there early there to play. The only All Weather Drive Ins I recall were Copiague, Patchogue and Smithtown. I remember when they twinned it the opening features were "Skyjacked" on one screen and "Hannie Caulder" on screen two. The first twin Drive-In! Later there were ads in Newsday proclaiming "Shirley is having twins" and it turned out the Shirley Drive in was twinned also.

There was a whole little amusement park out in front. It had a little roller coaster, a ferris wheel and everything. I saw A Hard Days Night there. I'll never forget driving by a few nights earlier with my parents and seeing the Beatles bigger than life on that screen in the night sky!

In the 70's they didn't resoret to just B Drive-In pictures either. I remember right after the Academy Awards I saw the double feature of "Cabaret" and "Lady Sings The Blues". Once I saw one of the unlikeliest double features for a Drive-In. How about "Slaughter House Five" doubled with "Minnie & Moskowitz"? Kurt Vonnegut Jr. and John Cassavetes together under the stars.

One night in the eighties my mother and I went there to see some famous picture. This was one of the few times I saw the drive in in full regalia. There were cats being projected on the screens. It was like the sixties reborn.

http://www.eastislip.org/Pages/BayShore%20Drive%20In/sunrise_drive_in.htm

Here's a link to some pics I hope it works.

What do you say we tell those crazy people to tear down that shopping center and put the screens back up? (LOL)

Amen!

I remember when Bay Shore (yes it is two words) was the first theater I knew of that played the audio through your AM radio. It was a god sent because I had many close calls with the speakers at the Copiague Johnnie All Weather.

I have many fond memories of the Bay Shore Drive-In. The indoor theater on the property was before my time (the first film I saw there was Star Wars in 1978). I never knew there had been an indoor theater there other than the Cinema just outside the property. Incidentally, after the Bay Shore Theater on Main St. closed, I think they started just calling the Cinema UA Bay Shore. That's how it was listed in Newsday, anyway. The only film I saw there other than Rocky Horror was Karate Kid III. That building was sort of a sister theater to the Brentwood Theater. Pretty much the same architecture.

As a kid I loved the playground at the Drive-In. We'd get there before sundown and play until the movies started. They took it out long before the Drive In closed though. I think a kid got hurt and they didn't want to deal with anymore lawsuits.

I saw one of my favorite random bad movies at the Drive-In. We went to see The Muppets Take Manhattan and it was inexplicably part of a double feature with Krull. We didn't even know 2 films were showing.

One weird fact I remember is that there was a gravel long jump track complete with sand pit up near the base of one of the screens. I always wondered what on earth it was doing there.

By the way, if anyone has any info on where the old Fifth Ave. Drive-In was, I'd love to know. I only recently found out about it's existence.

I know I saw Fletch here in 1985 and probably one or two other films, but I can't for the life of me remember the names of those films or any of the supporting features. As was mentioned earlier, this was the first Drive-In theater I ever attended that made use of the cars radio's speakers.

I lived out in Bay Shore for a couple of years and to get to the theater coming down Brentwood Road from the north, you had to turn onto Oakwood Blvd and then make a right onto St Louis Avenue, going around the permiter of the property that encompassed the Drive-In and the Waldbaums Shopping Center that fronted Brentwood Road. This would then put you on the service road of the Sunrise Hwy going in the proper direction so that you could turn into the theater's parking lot. Anyway, coming down St. Louis Avenue (in a residential development, mind you) one could clearly make out the images on the twin screens which rose high enough to provide a clear line of sight over the fencing that ran along the edge of the property. Maybe not an issue when Muppets Take Manhattan was playing, but certainly something to talk about when a movie like About Last Night had a 30 foot tall Rob Lowe and Demi Moore prancing naked around the bedroom.

BTW, the Waldbaum's on the old drive in site is now even gone. It's currently a Best Buys. Other stores in the center are ToysR'Us, Petco and Office Depot (KidsR'Us until recently).

BTW, the Waldbaum's on the old drive in site is now even gone. It's currently a Best Buys. Other stores in the center are ToysR'Us, Petco and Office Depot (KidsR'Us until recently).

Should this be listed as 3 screens since it had the indoor screen as well as the two outdoors?

Robert, it probably should be listed as three screens but don't look for that to happen any time soon, it seems that things are not getting updated and new theatres are not getting added like they used to be. Don't know what is happening to the site lately.

re: 3 screens...the cinema was built later then drive in between
drive in and farmers market...though the same company never operated
together...it would be like you and your brother own a house next to each other and you telling people you have two driveways..
i was with prudential in h.s. and later with us from 69 to late 70's.
one of the many theatres i managed was the bayshore theatre..
i don't remeber encore..but, check this out..if you think about it
bayshore had more theatre's then any town on long island at any given time...the bayshore[now ymca] the 'regent' still open with live shows [also owned ymca] the drive in, the cinema and the bayshore twins at the bayshore mall[still there not open].
by the way if you travel around l.i.check out the saville and islip
each now a triplex...BUT: check out the entrance and lobby's...
just as nice as the day they were born..
my mom worked for prudential and ua until she retired alost 40 years
she was a manager..northport, sayville,islip,lindenhurst,babylon and
simthtown drive in..just to mention a few..if you worked in any of
the above theatre's you may remember dotty...intermission is over
longislandwally75

Where was the drive-in on Fifth Ave.? (Before my time in Suffolk County.) It's hard to envision a lot big enough on Fifth Ave. to have been a drive-in.
The Bay Shore twin referred to above was a Loew's theater. It became a store for a while, but it now sits empty. However, a 16-screen multiplex is going to be built at the mall very soon. The current name of the mall is Westfield Shopping Town, although real people still call it the South Shore Mall.

jeana:
i will find out where 5th ave d i is...i lived on long island and as a kid went there with my family...i'm sure it was north of sunrise..
the 16 multiplex you talk about...sounds like national amusements ?
heard they plan to knock down commack to build one like island 16
cinema de lux holtsville..
the walconey is closed for today..
wally1075

Commack plans are for it tyo be knocked down but to be built on the same property..

yes...you're correct about commack..

5th ave drive is was loccated where hubbard sand and gravel is...

wally1975

update info....5th ave drive in...1612 5th ave is where hubbards
s&g....
north of southern state...5th and drayton ave..

wally1975

It's funny how Bay Shore went from having the most theaters per square foot at one time, to having none. I don't know what company is building the 16 screen at the mall. There was a lot of community opposition, due to fears of gang activity, and loss of parking. I didn't know about Commack, that's interesting.

went to the managers office of south shore mall

asked the about a new theatre...

they said " we don't have anyone at this time under contract for any

new theatre>>"

it was like talking to the white house the kept going back to the no contract theme....wally1975

Jeana, they still show old movies at the Boulton Center on Main St.... But it's mostly a perfroming arts center now.

That's really odd, I've heard lots of people who live near the mall complaining about the way the town basically ignored all their input at some meeting or other. In fact, I remember somebody saying that the original plans called for fewer theaters, and it was later raised to 16. I'll have to ask around--I thought it was a done deal. The way the manager kept repeating one phrase sounds like some sort of a technical denial, as if it's going through but they know it isn't popular.......?

I worked at the Bay Shore Sunrise DI in the summer of 1978 and 1979.
I think the long jump track Bill C was referring a few posts up was actually the remnants of a mini-golf. Before my time there was apparently a putt-putt type golf course that backed up to Oakwood Blvd. But by the late 70's it was long gone, but you could still see some of the "holes".

UA required the "rampmen" who worked at the theater to wear these really hot jumpsuits. White with a UA logo on the left chest. The rampmen directed traffic till the movies started, then chased the walk in's who entered the theater from the "golf course", those who paid for one and tried so sneak their friends in who were hiding in the trunk. When Cheech and Chong movies played, we had to pay special attention to the concession lines because for some reason more people tried to rob Bon Bons off the counter during those movies.

The Bayshore Sunrise Drive in was open in the 50s before the Copiague Johnny all weather. I frequented it alot back then. My father was a Drive in addict and we went 2-3 times a week. the "gravel sand pit" at the front of the screen was not the mini golf course which was added later (I think about 60-61) but those could be the remains of shuffleboard courts which my parents and grandparents would play before the movie. The golf course was located on the South East side of the property. The playground featured a ferris wheel and it was located near the snack bar. Sunrise Hwy was just a 2 lane rd. back then and we would turn left onto the property coming from the East. There was no traffic! The Farmers market was on the west side of the property. The building was a long quonset hut strung with xmas lights year round. . there was an amusement park about a mile west on the North side of Sunrise near the Peter pan diner (I just stumbled across the Peter pan website and was suprised that they were still there.) with a ferris wheel like ride that had old bi planes attached that would spin( I never rode it) The 5th ave was located on the west side of 5th near where the auto salvage yards are or were( I live in North Carolina now) and it did stay open for a short while along with the Bayshore Sunrise cause we visited them both. The 5th Ave, had a simple little playground in front of the screen with swings, see-saws and also a shuffleboard court. The snackbar was a very old looking structure painted brown. Charlie S.

I do not remember an indoor theater on this property and I remember the snack bar as a stand-alone building. Also, it is possible,the Bay Shore 5th Ave. Drive-IN may have been North of Southern State Pky. My placing it by the auto salvage yards may or not be correct. When I visited there as a child, the suburbs were just coming in and most of that area was still scrub pine forest.

I remember there being an indoor at the drive in entrance. I recall seeing Glory at that theater. Maybe that's the one.

There was an indoor theater in front of the Drive-In but not as I recall, on the drive-in property itself, like the Copiague All- Weather or Patchogue.

It wasn't on the drive in, but I think it was a U.A.

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go back to june o6 may answer some questions...

wally 1975

Thanx Wally, but that wasn't really a question, I just remember it being there.

This double bill must have helped heat up the patrons in the cars :)
http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a13/ChmnofBrd/Movie%20Ads/6aa70701.jpg

Robert, what was playing in the old Patchogue Plaza, seen to the left?

BTW, to comment on the link, adult movies at a drive in?!?! I had no idea they used to do that!

I don't know I don't have that part of the ad. Yes there were many drive-ins that went all XXX. There was still one in Scranton PA 10 years ago.

Were these XXX hardcore films? Or "soft" X? Either way, I imagine a number of local teens probably found their way to St. Louis Ave on the perimeter of the drive-in lot to try and peer at the exotic images that filled the giant screen!

Some pictures of this Drive-in theater can be found here: www.eastislip.org

My family had the farm (white house with blue roof) directly across the street from the Bayshore drive in. At night we would sit on the stoop and watch the movie without sound. One of my relatives read lips really well as a fun thing. We would cross Sunrise Highway in the daytime which was not very wide or buisy and play on the solid metal swing horses which were hung with chain. If you stood in front of them on full swing it could kill ya I guess. I also remember the round spinning platform with the pipe you would hold onto and run as fast as you could then jump on and spin. So much for safety back then eh? Good thing lawyers were not so desperate in the 60's. On Sundays we would get cake from Entermans right down the street. I was only 6 at the time and lived at the playground in the Bay Shore drive in. What a life it was.

Slightly off-topic, but if anyone is interested in old photos of the area, I have posted quite a few on webshots.com Just type in Bay Shore Brightwaters and you'll see them.

Thanks, Jeana... shots 61 and 79 of the 85 posted feature the Bay Shore Sunrise Drive-In - including one of the pylon sign on Sunrise that had been previously posted somewhere above.

Filly5050... are you talking about this Drive-In or the 5th Avenue Drive-In? I'm not questioning your memory, I'm just curious since both were on Sunrise Hwy and you mention Entenmann's being down the street. The Entenmann's bakery that I'm thinking of is at the corner of 5th Avenue and Brentwood Road. I only ask since that intersection is probably a lot closer to the site of the Drive-In down 5th Ave than it is the Sunrise Drive-In which was much farther away down where Brentwood Road crosses Sunrise.

Sorry... I mean flip5050.

To clarify a bit, I grew up in Brentwood. Entenmann's is on 5th Ave but it is not at the corner of 5th and Brentwood Rd. There is no such corner. 5th Ave. and Brentwood Rd. run parallel to each other in a north/south direction. They both run from Main St./Montauk Hwy. at the south end, to Suffolk Ave. at the north end.

The 5th Ave. Drive-In closed before I was even born but I don't think it was right near Sunrise Highway. I think previous posters on here have suggested that it was located where Hubbard Sand & Gravel now is, which is well north of Sunrise and right down the road from Entenmanns.

Right... 5th Avenue and Candlewood! That's where Entenmann's was. It's been a while. Anyway... flip's comment about going up the road to Entenmann's made me think that he might have been thinking of the 5th Avenue Drive-In. My mistake in thinking it was on Sunrise Hwy. If flip was across Sunrise from the Drive-In then it must be the Sunrise Drive-In. Perhaps there was another Entenmann's outlet near there at one time. Also, I don't recall that the screens faced Sunrise Hwy... I thought they faced in more of an eastern direction... but - as is quite evident from my last couple of posts - my memory may be faulty! I lived in the area in very early 20's in 1985-88. Right on Candlewood and Massachusettes Ave, as a matter of fact.

Thanks, Bill.

I only remember the farm from when I was 5 or 6 until I was 10 or 11 when we sold it. I remember going out the back of the property to a dirt road that ran parallel to Sunrise and we would buy eggs and other things from the farmers on "farmers road" as we called it. Don't remember the real name. Then we would head on over to Entermans (my best part of the trip) and buy cake. I do remember watching the drive in screen from the front steps of the house, for it was bed time right after the first show.

Anyone have more pictures of the Sunrise Drive-In. I am making a Lionel O gauge layout from our old trains and I want to build the drive-in as close to real as possible. I already have the house. Thanks

I don't think Flip is mis-remembering the drive-in./ I think he is talking about Bayshore Sunrise but that he's just mistaken a little bit about how close Entenmann's was to it. I think it's coincidental that Entenmann's happened to be down the road from a completely different drive-in than Flip was talking about. By the way, Entenmann's is still there at 5th and Candlewood, right where it has always been.

I think the Bay Shore Sunrise Drive-In screens did face Sunrise more or less. They were angled a bit but I'm pretty sure you could see them from Sunrise. I remember watching the credits as we drove away. We used to there a few times every summer before it closed down. By the time I was old enough to drive the only drive-in left on LI was Westbury.

I remember being able to catch good glimpses of the screens from St. Louis Avenue, which ran on the eastern perimeter of the drive in. You had to cut over Oakwood and drive down St. Louis to get to the entrance if you were coming from my direction down Brentwood Road, because the Sunrise Hwy service roads were one way in each direction. I know I saw a handful of movies here, but all I can remember is the first "Fletch" with Chevy Chase.

Last time I was at the site of the old Drive-In, I stopped for a late bite in the TGIF that is near the location. There's some big chain store there where the Drive-In lot was. I can't remember which.

ed

the drive way that leads to the big store [maybe home depot]..is the same drive way used to get to the di boxoffice...
also pier 1 is on the spot of the cinema bayshore..
when you looked out the front of the cinema slightly to your right
was the bayshore roller rink..
the cinema was on it's own lot...as was the farmers market..
remember to hang up your speakers before you pull out!!!!

wally75

ps: cinema had it's own entrance and exit..
as did the farmers market..

wally

Well the one I really remember was "Attack of the 50 foot Woman", and I was looking up and around for days after that one! One Eyed Cyclops
was another big screen favorite. I guess I just dated myself.....

if i remember right the 5th ave drive in was just south of the 3rd pct it became a car wash and a stone yard the bay shore drivein became apts,home depot and a supermarket next door where toys r us is.use to be the farmers market they had rides for the kids in front brentwood rd and sunrise until hurr.donna the drive in also had rides and min.golf way in the back before thay started the flea market thing thay had a drive in church on sundays

does anyone remember a movie that was filmed at the bay shore drive in back in the 60s poss w/peter fonda

Well, I though I would add my memories of the Bay Shore Sunrise Drive-in. I went there as a youth in the early Sixties, right up to its closing. I remember coming as a small child and seeing movies like "North By Northwest," "The Time Machine," some of the ones shown around 1960. I recall the playground in back of the concession stand. I remember walking over to the east to play minuature golf a few times. I vividly recall the inside of the concession stand, especially the large movie posters on the southern wall that I had to ogle every time we came in, and it was that stand where I developed my love for Yoo-Hoo - had to have it, or the other
chocolate drink they had (was it Bordens?).

I remember the speakers that had to be driven up to, and their tinny sound! AND, the switch to the radio broadcast sound. In the early Sixties, before the movie, they played soft top 40 hits, and I still think of watching the sun set whenever I hear this music.

I don't recall any "inside theater" within the grounds of the Bay Shore Drive-in. That doesn't mean it wasn't there, but I don't remember it. I do remember the near-by Bay Shore Cinema, and seeing a film there right after it opened (early 60's, one of the Robert Youngman silent film comedy clip movies), and seeing "Rocky Horror Picture Show" there within months of its closing around 1990.

My memories of the Bay Shore Drive-In include sneaking into it a few times on-foot in the early 70's to see a showing of all the Planet of the Apes movies. Another time, I was picked up by a cop and removed.

I worked there as a rampman starting around 78-79 (hello Tony G.). It was a very low paying, great job. I guess at this point, the job of "rampman" has gone the way of the job of "stage coach builder". Who would have ever though there would be no drive-in theaters here? I guess economics, and not nostalga, really dictates the land use.

When I first started there, field 2 was still using speakers, and I remember we would get complaints about the noise from the locals if we didn't make a sweep and turn down the speakers a couple of times a week (nobody turned them down when they re-hung them on the post).

So they go and install AM Cinema Radio out in theater 2 around 1980, and do away with the speakers, which was a great idea (maintenance on speakers was a never ending issue). They end up transmitting on the same frequency (I think 540 kHz) as a Cuban radio station, that we found out was transmitting at about 100,000 watts. During peak sun spot activity of the summer, the Cuban station used to boom in out in field #2, loud and clear. Some people took exception with watching a movie with unrelated Spanish music in the backgroud. A few refunds were issued!

John, I agree. I don't remember an indoor theater in field #2, just the projection booth building. And yes, we used to call the Third Pct. if the "walk in" situation got really bad. But the home office would bust our chops about walk-ins, because they would see increases in the concession stand "per capita" sales, due to the "walk ins" (they had it calculated how much each paying customer should spend, any excess was probably people who didn't buy tickets. I hate bean counters).

As far as the Bay Shore Cinema (also addressed 1881 Sunrise Hwy), it was a totally separate entity (own staff, manager, budget, etc), though also United Artist theater. The Pier-One building that stands on Sunrise Hwy to the west, was built a few years (mid-80's), before the demolition of the Cinema, on an undeveloped parcel of land. I even thought at the time it was a very stark contrast: An old single screen movie theater (certainly a struggling breed for many years), next to a new-styled retailer. What I didn't realize then that the "Box" stores would take over every piece of land in sight (including 1881 Sunrise Hwy); and we would loose every single Drive-In movie theater on Long Island. A real shame.

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If anyone has pictures of the Bay Shore Cinema on Main Street (it is now a YMCA), please post here or email me at billjeanTRASH@whoever.com (take out the t*r*a*s*h). I have a large collection of photos of Bay Shore and Brightwaters, but I have never been able to find any pics of this theater. My album is here:

http://news.webshots.com/album/309685971nJUqJc

There are several photos of the drive-in in my collection.

I would appreciate any photos. Thank you.

I painted that sign, longislandmovies!

This site has some information.

Here is a 1980 aerial.

Is this the site where Home Depot, Best Buy, and that shopping center is now? Or was it where TGI Fridays, etc and the mall is now?

Hi Bway-
It's the Home Depot/Shop Rite property. Best Buy is the old Bay Shore Farmer's Market location.