Lakeshore Drive-In

Margate, FL

1000 N. State Road 7

, Margate, FL 33313 United States

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Status:	Closed/Demolished
Screens:	Multiplex (4 Screen)
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Unknown
Seats:	Unknown
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	Unknown
Firm:	Unknown

This drive-in theater was owned by race car driver and Thunderbird Drive-In/Swap Shop owner Preston Henn.

Contributed by Harvey

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Article on Preston Henn, Miami Drive-In mogul here.

posted by Harvey on Jun 26, 2008 at 5:35pm

Also known as the Margate Drive-In.

posted by AlAlvarez on Aug 11, 2008 at 11:54am

Drive-in movies ceased in 1984 (second-run 99 cent admission by then), but the Lake Shore (two words) site remained home to the Lake Shore Motel (guests once had free access to movies) and Margate Swap Shop (smaller complement to Henn's Sunrise Blvd. colossus). Margate's Community Redevelopment Agency acquired the property in 2006, as part of the Margate Town Center redevelopment corridor.

Primary memory: an early 70s revival of "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" crammed onto the Lake Shore's tiniest screen (of corrugated metal).

UA would open an eightplex around the corner a couple years later (Movies at Margate, itself long since demolished for a Wal*Mart).

posted by S Porridge on Aug 14, 2008 at 3:11pm

Listed in 1980 as the Margate Drive-in with a capacity for 500 cars.

posted by Lost Memory on Dec 17, 2008 at 6:42pm

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