Candlelite Pix Drive-In
110 River Street,
Bridgeport,
CT
06601
110 River Street,
Bridgeport,
CT
06601
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In the 1955 edition of Theatre Catalog, the Candlelite Drive-In was listed as (Under Construction) by E.M. Loew.
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Robert R
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Wasn’t this called the Candlelite Pix?
110 River St.
Maybe they shortened it for the ad but when they were playing a Hammer double bill of “Scars of Dracula” and “Horror of Frankenstein” they listed themselves as Candle Pix Drive-In.
I have found this theater on drive-in lists as Candlelite Pix and Candlelite Pix Twin. Even the spelling is sometimes different. Driveins.com has it spelled Candlelight Pix:
http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/cttcand
Anyway, the car capacity is listed at around 1300 and the address that Roger posted of 110 River St is the same as I have found.
Oh, yeah. I forgot that this most surely was a twin. One screen was the Candlelite and the other screen was the Pix.
Yes, it was a twin screen theater and I spent many happy moments hearing the movie on one screen with my head turned around watching the movie on the other screen. The snack shop sold drive-in pizzaa that tasted like tomatoes on rotting cardboard and egg rolls that tasted like molten shoe leather, but, if it could be brought back, I wouldn’t change a thing!
This story is dated 5/2/55:
Roger Bailey, of Patchogue, LA captured the 25-lap feature midget auto race at Candlelite Stadium yesterday afternoon. The racing program marked the close of Candlelite Stadium as a sporting arena and it will be torn down for a drive-in motion picture theater which is expected to be completed before July 1.
Part of the grandstand and all the bleachers on the left field side of the baseball diamond already have been razed. The several hundred fans who watched the midget racers yesterday sat in the right field bleachers and on the terrace.
Here is an August 1958 ad from the Bridgeport Post:
http://tinyurl.com/phga6u
I remember going to this drive in with my parents when I was a kid. I was probably only about 4 or 5 years old, maybe 6, so the year was probably 1971 or 1972.
My uncle’s construction company was in the same area as the drive-in. I remember the drive-in closed and my dad and I would drive past it to go to my uncle’s office. In my memory I can still see the tall gray metal wall with the letters PIX on it (it was probably the backside of the movie screen). I beleive when it was an operating theater, the PIX letters were made of red neon lights.
Here is a 1960 aerial photo of the drive-in, courtesy of HistoricAerials.com.
I remember being at one screen and watching the movies on the other screen at the same time. We saw a Bruce Lee triple bill (Enter The Dragon, Fists Of Fury and The Chinese Connection) there 2 nights in a row. There were 7 or 8 of us cramped into my ‘66 Riviera. I think “Blacula” and “Abby” on a double bill were the last films I saw there.