Sheridan Drive-In

Oooh--bad memories of this place! Caught my high-school boyfriend there, cheating! :(

Saw "Bronco Billy" there in 1980. Remembered a open Jeep full of guys that had to leave suddenly when it started to pour rain. I had a friend who used to put his hi beams on and watch all the "making out couples" jump in front of him when the lights shined.

I was also an usher at this drive-in and it was a local favorite: possibly the classiest of our area's outdoor theatres. A favorite part of working there, was patrolling the field, after the movies were over and almost all the cars had pulled out... except for those very few that remained, because their occupants had fallen asleep during the movies. Shining our flashlights into those vehicles never failed to provide laughs and quite often, XXX-Rated entertainment for us ushers. You'd be surprised at how many people fall asleep, naked, at a drive-in!

I recall the sign i mean you could see this thing for what was like miles to me of corse i was a little kid at the time, but for me at least it looked like something off of the Las Vegas strip that great big red ,yellow ,green and i think blue star just inviting you to come in! good times good times goodtimes. Ad fore the shopping center it is no longer their eather the stores that i recall being on the lot were a VENTURE, then came AMES but i think with the K-MART
right their on 79th thay took the shopers,their is a NORTHWESTERN BUSNESS SCHOOL whare the stores were and i think their used to be a CUB foods all so it to is gone. But thay now have a bank and some little stores in the plaza whare the drive-in was.One thing that i can recall is that the fearther you went in the world stop and you could not hear the traffic on Harlem Ave. all you heard were the cherp of crickets and the sound of the cars rolling over the gravel in the "seating area". Good times i will miss them:)

Well thank You for your time and for your space. :)

I used to frequent all the Chicago area drive-ins in the 70's and 80's, and I know I was at the Sheridan a couple of times but I can't recall what it looked like. Does anyone have any pictures of the place?

Was the Harlem Corners Theatre located here (or at least in the same strip mall)?

Catherine, the Sheridan was located at 79th & Harlem. Harlem Corners was located at 87th & Harlem. So they weren't in the same strip mall, but they were down the street from one another. I don't think Harlem Corners existed while the Sheridan was in operation (or even still standing!) though.

Harlem Corners is still standing but it is closed.
Harlem Corners was one of those theatres that you needed to ware you old shoes cuse the floor was stickey your shoes stuck to the floor.

So true. And there was a truly rotten element there. Lots of gang scum. I remember going there once and people had to be searched. Lots of punks yelling and acting out. I demanded a refund and never went back.

The thing I remember most about the Sheridan wasn't so much the movies I saw. It was my dad dragging me there every Sunday morning when I was a little kid for the flea market. At that age I could never understand why someone wanted to buy someone elses used crap. But as long as he let me play in the little playground behind the consession stand all was good. :)

The Sheridan Drive-In is listed in 1975 with a capacity for 1,500 cars.

I remember going to the Haunted Trails miniature golf course in the mid-70's and looking over the fence at the movie being shown. It was perfect viewing, as the screen faced Southwest, directly facing the Northeastern section of the course. I also remember that huge sign quite well. You could see it from blocks away, that's for sure.