Lacey Drive-In
700 Sleater-Kinney Road SE,
Lacey,
WA
98503
700 Sleater-Kinney Road SE,
Lacey,
WA
98503
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This local landmark was built by the Art Zabel family, who continued to operate it until 1978, when it was sold to Tom Moyer’s Luxury Theaters of Portland, Oregon. Luxury Theaters operated it until it closed. A Fred Meyer store and retail strip mall have since replaced it.
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David Jensen
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When did this drive-in close?
In November 1981 there was a huge windstorm that blew down the left one-third of the screen. Theater closed and sat for several years before being torn down.
Here are some photos and a grand opening ad from 1953.
I contributed some of the photos and information to Arthur Allen’s Drive-ins of Western Washington site.
Car capacity in 1975 was 500.
The checkstands of the Fred Meyer store entrance “A” approximate where the screen tower once stood.
Link to an aerial photo of the Lacey drive-in taken in 1957.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58299528@N05/5375694066/in/photostream
Here is the Link
Screen tower was all wood construction with telephone poles as the main support. The picture area was 40 feet by 94 feet with a flat black masking border painted on it. The tower did not angle toward the ramps. It was straight. The face of the picture area was all asbestos tiles.