Absecon Drive-In

The screen is still standing. The adjacent golf course is now a Home Depot and Staples office supply store.

According to CT contributor crazybob, the Absecon Drive-In was first owned by Walter Reade and later by the Frank family.

Here are some photos from 2005. Not much left.

Thanks for the pics from my neck of the woods. The opening date was probably in the early 60s. I saw Snow White, some other Disney film (Bluebeard's Ghost?) and Sergeant Deadhead (with the Three Stooges) as a five or six year old, circa 1966.

Here is another photo:
http://tinyurl.com/y4yedn

I ran the last film there in the summer of 1983. The FRANKS were trying to make it into a truck stop for casino buses. They had showers and sleeping bunks in the kitchen area, for the bus drivers. The films that we were showing were soft core porn. We charged 4.00 a carload, but the marquee said: 4.00 a load. I think that they were running out of letters.

They were showing soft porn as early as 1975, as I recall.

The 1963 motion picture almanac gives the car capacity of this drive-in as 642. The operator at that time was Al Frank.

This is a very eerie place to visit. All that is left is a screen and a single pole. The rest is trees and trash. How in the world did you het in and out of this place? Anyway, it is in the middle of nowhere, and would probably not cost much to buy and refurbish. I would certainly take a trip there one night.

The entrance was on the White Horse Pike. The marquee was out on the Pike as well. There was a narrow two lane road that led to the ticket booth about a hundred yards back from the street. From there you would park your car and enjoy the show.

Here are more photos from drive-ins.com. It looks like the screen will come down soon:
http://tinyurl.com/23xg24

You must be clairvoyant since the status already reads closed/demolished.

Is it possible they are reopening it? Nah, we need another Target/Wal-Mart/Lowes.

There is a Home Depot on the adjacent property, which used to be a golf course. I imagine that most of the ramshackle motels on the Pike will be gone soon. Many of them have been closed and deteriorating for years.

If anyone is driving past here soon, let me know if the screen has been taken down.

I drive past this every day. The screen is still up. Its presently being used as a staging area for a bridge construction project a mile away. Also, most of the seedy motels around it previously mentioned to be closed, are in fact still open.

OK, thanks. I will be back there next month. I will try and take some pictures.

I drove by today and saw the intact screen. It's pouring rain, so I'm not stopping.

I remember sitting on the tracks around 1968. We saw "You Only Live Twice", & "Hotrods To Hell".

Here is a June 2008 photo that shows the screen still standing.

If you enter 421 E. Absecon Avenue, city of Absecon, on this site and pan down a bit, you can see some nice aerials from the sixties and seventies.
http://www.historicaerials.com/Default.aspx?poi=3183

Here is a 1963 aerial view:
http://tinyurl.com/ye5ryd4