Shoreline Drive-In
Reedsport,
OR
97467
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Located on Bolon (aka Tideways) Island just north of Reedsport Oregon at the confluence of the Smith and Umpqua Rivers, the Shoreline Drive-In was the property of the owner of the hard-top Pacific Theater in downtown Reedsport.
The Shoreline was built in the early 1950s, but is gone now. It was a standard small-town drive-in, playing lesser A-list and lots of B-list movies, sometimes “burning off” required rentals in dusk-to-dawn marathons.
There was nothing special about the Shoreline Drive-In other than its location on an island. But it served the purposes of the local community, which included Reedsport, Gardiner, Winchester Bay and the dozens of farms in the surrounding area.
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Bill Warren
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In 1975 the Shoreline Drive-In had a capacity for 300 cars.
In the mid 1950s I worked for the owner, Earl Balthazar (sp?), doing a wide series of rather menial tasks. I took tickets, hauled in the boxes of candy, cleaned up after the ponies, changed the film names on the roadside sign, rewound films and sometimes met the truck that brought us new features to make the exchange.
It was not much, but it was “Show Biz” and a real thrill for a high school boy.
In 1963 the owners were Leonard Swain and Lloyd Claver. Claver also owned the Rhododendron Drive-In in Florence, OR at that time.
Who owned it it 1975?