Lee Highway Drive-In
8223 Lee Highway,
Merrifield,
VA
22081
8223 Lee Highway,
Merrifield,
VA
22081
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Cool a drive-in with real cineamscope.
It is listed in the 1956 Motion picture almanac,but tells nothing on how many cars could park or who owned it back in the 50’s.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY CLINT EASTWOOD,I know you filled that lot quite a bit.
This page has some cool Lee Highway stuff, including a great ‘50s-vintage photo of the marquee:
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From the Washington Post and Times Herald, 10/10/55:
A gunman wearing a paper sack over his head with holes cut in it for his eyes took $1100 in cash from the woman cashier of the Lee Highway Drive-In Theater last night while a theater audience sat unknowingly in about 500 darkened automobiles nearby.
Chain was Redstone..
Booth ran Simplex XLs and Ashcraft lamps.. water cooled gates but still ran very hot.
The multiplex that replaced this drive-in is this theater:
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