Silver Moon Drive-In
4100 New Tampa Highway,
Lakeland,
FL
33815
4100 New Tampa Highway,
Lakeland,
FL
33815
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The Silver Moon Drive-In opened April 14, 1948 with a capacity for 372 cars. In 1985, a second screen was added to the drive-in.
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in 1956 it parked 400 cars and was owned by I.Q. Mize.
And I wish I would have went here when in Tampa instead of that nightmare of a Drive-in the FUN-LAN Drive-in.
“LAWMAN” and “WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH HELEN” are playing.Another screwed up Double feature.Both GP.
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I have come across a photo of a playbill for the Harlem Drive-In Theatre that was located “1-½ miles west of Lakeland off New Tampa Highway”. It stated that it was “for colored patrons”. The period appears to be mid-1950s. Is that the same theatre as the Silver Moon?
I highly doubt it. The Silver Moon’s website says nothing about it ever switching over to being a negro theater. Sounds like you might’ve found a new drive-in.
It is definately not the Silver Moon Drive-In.
The problem withth is theater like any of the theaters in the Floyd theater chain is the screens are not wide enough to show movies in scope so the pictures goes off the screen and into the bushes. A waster of my money if I can’t see a film in scope the way it was meant to be seen.
Valley Drive-in in Aiken County,S.C. was the same way according to projectionists most of the movie was in “the pine trees!”
Video from the 50th Anniversary Celebration in 1998: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX_Yr7At5-s