Fox Drive-In
7777 Normandy Boulevard,
Jacksonville,
FL
32221
7777 Normandy Boulevard,
Jacksonville,
FL
32221
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Drive-in theatre off Normandy Boulevard and I-295 in Jacksonville, Florida. Started life as one screen but twinned around 1976. An Eastern Federal drive-in as far as I know.
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Harvey
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Fox Drive In Marquee circa 1979
http://www.myspace.com/porkysatthedrivein
Picture taken from Drive-ins.com-a cool resource for the drive-in lover.
All I did there was keep the booth equipment up and running when I worked for eastern federal corp. back in the early 80’s and thats when the midway twin drive in by eastern federal was also still open before the walmart !&#*%^ land grabbers got a hold of it.Boy those were the days or well nights actually.
Showed adult fare in the 70s and 80s. Had a capacity for 800 cars.
Address given as 7777 Normandy Blvd. Now a Publix Shopping Plaza.
Newspaper ads and times for films that played at the Fox & Midway
here.
Harvey, cool marquee picture and theatre ads. Until only the last couple of years, you could see the drive-in parking spots w/ poles from the back of the trailer park next to where the theatre was located. As a child I remember seeing “Walt Disney’s Snow White” there. In my teens, I saw “Rollercoaster” there on my first drive-in movie date with a girl.
To give credit where credit is due, a gentlemen named Tommy Holcombe contributed that picture to drive-ins.com. It’s the only picture of the Fox marquee I’ve been able to find.
Found a copy of an old add that gave the address the same as Harvey listed on 3/17/07/ 7777Normandy Blvd.
I found two links stating that the Fox closed in 1985, it had been playing adudt fare since 1975.
7777 Normandy Blvd, Jacksonville, FL 32221
The above address will map accurately to the location of the drive-in, which is visible on Google Earth using historic aerial imagery.
The drive-in property itself is occupied by The Oaks At Normandy Apartments, a Publix is built on the propery which fronted between the drive-in and the Normandy Blvd.