University Drive-In
4100 Carpenter Road,
Ypsilanti,
MI
48197
4100 Carpenter Road,
Ypsilanti,
MI
48197
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The University Drive-In was a big single-screen theater opened in 1965, located between Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti, Michigan. It was demolished in 1985 and a Showcase Cinema was built on the site. The Showcase is still in operation in 2006.
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Frank Uhle
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Photos can be seen here.
This theater was part of the Butterfield chain, which ran numerous Michigan movie houses including the Michigan, State, Wayside and Campus in Ann Arbor…I don’t think they owned it, at least the operation was not directly supervised by Butterfield the way the other theaters were, but they did share ad space.
Around 1981 Butterfield sold out to a chain called Kerasotes, which may have been a factor in the University’s closure. Kerasotes didn’t last long either, and is mostly remembered for protests after they fired their union projectionists.
Further information on this drive-in can be found on this web site.
www.michigandriveins.com
Thanks Chuck.