Bankhead Drive-In
3350 Bankhead Highway NW,
Atlanta,
GA
30331
3350 Bankhead Highway NW,
Atlanta,
GA
30331
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Before Georgia theatres bought it.the BANKHEAD was owned by West End Theatres.Still parking 650 cars in 1956.
Nice photos Lost Memory.
This drive-in was owned by Georgia Theatre Co.
Wow, thanks so much for posting those pictures. I never saw any movies here, as by the time I was growing up this was in an area considered not all that safe. However I drove by this Drive-In hundreds, if not thousands of times, in my youth and I always loved the way the entrance to this Drive-In looked.
Link to the Drive In ladder ad in the Atlanta paper on August 5, 1964. The blogger has also written up some of his memories of working at these places. Worth a look if you are interested in the drive in culture from 1970 – 1990.
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Newspaper ad from 1964 with a write up on “A Hard Days Night.”
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Car capacity for the Bankhead Drive-In was 650.
I remember the Bankhead Drive In from the 50s and 60s. It was always a thrill to go there for a movie. Often, we’d sit outside the theater in our car and watch the picture over the fence without the benefit of sound. Wow, I miss those times!
Steve B.
The year given for these photos is 1955:
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