Main Line Drive-In
Route 30,
Devon,
PA
19333
Route 30,
Devon,
PA
19333
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This drive-in sat in a field just off Route 30. It was hard to see the field it self but you could see the screen from the road. It was built by the Smith family (they had several drive-ins) and run by Budco theatres out of Doylestown, PA. A shopping center is now located on this site.
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Car capacity in 1975 was 1,000.
Here is a 1957 aerial view:
http://tinyurl.com/ydqlmh6
Aerial view looks like a baseball stadium.
Strange.It is listed in 1956 Motion picture Almanac but with no info on cars it holds or who owns it.1,000 cars seems alot for such a small city.Don’t make sense.
Kencmcintyre’s link is dead, but if you go to Historic Aerial’s website and type in “Route 30 Devon, Pennsylvania”, you’ll find the drive-in theatre, beginning in 1957. According to Kerry Segrave’s book ‘Drive-In Theaters: A History from Their Inception in 1933’, the inventor of the drive-in, Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr., and his wife lived close to this theatre, and they sometimes visited it to watch movies.
Uploaded aerial view 1958
Approx. address for this drive-in was 762 West Lancaster Avenue, now in Wayne, PA 19087. Now Courtyard.
Lincoln Highway, US 30 and West Lancaster Ave are all the same, the Courtyard is the Courtyard Philadelphia Devon.