28th Street Drive-In
4990 28th Street North,
St. Petersburg,
FL
33714
4990 28th Street North,
St. Petersburg,
FL
33714
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The 28th Street Drive-In opened in 1951. It had a capacity for 650 cars. The 28th Street Drive-In closed in July of 2000. The last movie to play there was “Rules of Engagement” with Tommy Lee Jones and Samuel L. Jackson.
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Grand opening ad is on this newspaper page at View link
Nice find Mike. It looks like I’m off by one year. Opening year should be changed to 1951.
Here are some pictures taken right after it closed.
Thanks MajorMayjor.
Found a picture that I had taken of the backside of the screen. This could be seen from I-275 just south of the 54th Avenue North exit.
Nice photo MajorMajor.
it parked 750 cars and was owned in the late 50’s by P.J.Jones and Carl Floyd.
I posted the January 2nd, 1950 grand opening ad here.
Video from the last show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HK2W5xkA5Xs
I was the projectionist there for many years and own one of the RCA ( Brenkert ) projection heads. I also have many pictures including the projection booth both with two projectors and arc lamps and with one projector and platter.