Buffalo Drive-In
3085 Harlem Road,
Buffalo,
NY
14225
3085 Harlem Road,
Buffalo,
NY
14225
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The Buffalo Drive-In opened in August 1941. It is listed in 1955 as being on Harlem Road at Genesee Street, in the Cheektowaga district. At that time as a single screen it had a capacity for 650 cars.
It had a capacity for 1,200 cars in its 3-screens and was open April to September. The Buffalo Drive-In was closed on September 1, 2007.
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When I found out that this drive-in was closing, I immediately made plans to make the 150+ mile trip to visit. And I’m sure glad I did! Great 3-screener with one of the most excellent snack bars I have ever seen! So hard to accept that another fine outdoor theater now belongs to the ages. Hopefully, the screens will not be sold for scrap (since they are in excellent shape) and go to other drive-in owners who are looking to expand or maybe even open new drive-ins.
The Buffalo Drive-in was the first ozoner to open in the Buffalo area on August 1, 1941. Their first movie was DOWN ARGENTINE WAY, and the ticket cost was only 31 cents per person.
The original drive-in was torn down after the 1973 season and rebuilt as a triple screen drive-in, which reopened on July 18, 1974.
The Buffalo Drive-in’s final season was 2007, when it was sold to a developer for the construction of a medical office park.
If so, then the status should be changed to closed.
This is from forgottenbuffalo.com:
http://tinyurl.com/yqlp37
Located in Cheektowaga, NY, phone number 1960: TAylor 0406
This was the Buffalo in 1987.
I was serching in my 1956 Motion Picture Almanac and NO drive-ins are listed in Buffalo.They must have had a small city limits and all the Drive-ins were in nearby towns?
This theatre was actually in Cheektowaga. There is a picture of the marquee in the snack bar of the medical complex, which occupies the site of the former drive-in.
Goggle Earth View 2005
Looks like, by aerial view, the snack bar was saved! But there is still quite a bit of land not being used by the new business' there. The back 2 lots of the drive in are still there. Possibly could have still had at least 1, possibly 2 screens for the area to have their drive in theatre. Seen here. <— Google Maps… Oh well. Progress?
Randy A Carlisle