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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » Florida » Miami » 22nd Avenue Drive-In

22nd Avenue Drive-In

Miami, FL
NW 22nd Avenue and 69th Street
, Miami, FL 33147 United States
(map)
Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Unknown
Function: Unknown
Seats: Unknown
Chain: Unknown
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Independent drive-in operating in the mid-Fifties.
Contributed by Al Alvarez

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The address for this drive-in was 6900 N.W. 22nd Avenue. It had room for 700 cars.
posted by AlAlvarez on Aug 4, 2008 at 2:04pm
The 22nd Avenue shut down sometime in 1969.
posted by AlAlvarez on Aug 4, 2008 at 2:08pm
The 22nd Avenue Drive-In was advertised as the Liberty City Drive-in at the same time. Does anyone know if they had two sections for segragated audiences?
posted by AlAlvarez on Aug 11, 2008 at 11:57am
Al....Drive-ins.com lists this as the Liberty City Drive-In with 22nd Ave Drive-In being an aka name. The address is the same as the one you posted on Aug 4, 2008.

6900 NW 22nd Ave
Miami, FL 33147

posted by Lost Memory on Aug 11, 2008 at 12:16pm
The 22nd Ave Drive-in was a regular stop on our drive-in circuit 1950-55, and was in fact a segregated operation, with whites entering from the west off 22nd Ave, and blacks entering the Liberty City Drive-in from the east (21st Ave or 21st Ct.) One screen at the north end with a tall wooden fence bisecting the parking and concession areas. Neither side could see or have contact with the other, but if you sat in the outdoor seating area in front of the concession building you could hear folks on the other side. It was weird even for Miami in the 50s.
posted by MayfairMan on Mar 21, 2009 at 10:55am
Thanks for the insight MayfairMan!

I recently visited Historical Museum of South Florida where they currently have an exhibit on the African Diaspora in Miami.

http://www.hmsf.org/

This type of info would have been a welcome addition. In my theatre research I also stumbled upon another Miami weirdness. The 1926 telephone book had a section for "Colored people". This odd bit of segregation would surely have made it easier to find black friends and family.
posted by AlAlvarez on Mar 21, 2009 at 11:07am
This opened in 1949 as the Liberty City Drive-In. In 1953 it started advertising as the 22nd Avenue presumably to lure white audiences.
posted by AlAlvarez on Apr 5, 2009 at 1:38pm
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