Chakeres East Main Drive-In

4750 E. Main Street,
Whitehall, OH 43213

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ChasSmith
ChasSmith on May 4, 2012 at 6:45 am

Thank you so much for these uploads. My mom and dad bought their first house in Whitehall in 1955, and drive-ins were our chief form of movie-going entertainment. I remember the name Miles, and I have a few memory fragments of this drive-in in particular, due to its configuration on the north side of Main and facing south.

Thanks also, whoever contributed the note about the neighboring root beer drive-in. Don’t remember that specifically, but I have no doubt whatever that we were patrons there as well!

hispeed54
hispeed54 on May 4, 2012 at 5:03 am

I was wondering, has anybody talked to the Chakeres people and see if they have any old pictures of there drive-ins?

hispeed54
hispeed54 on May 4, 2012 at 3:58 am

Goggle Earth View 1995

RichM
RichM on June 6, 2008 at 9:13 am

Spent many a summer night at this drive in. Love Bug, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, 101 Dalmatians, etc……Remember seeing Orton Davis fourth of July Fireworks, pre- RED WHITE AND BOOM, from the drive in.

Ron Newman
Ron Newman on May 4, 2008 at 9:33 pm

Miles East Main later became Chakeres East Main, I believe.

Mark_L
Mark_L on May 3, 2008 at 9:15 pm

Miles East Main. I went there often when younger. Used to wait for the projectionist to get hot and open the door. One night, he was running flat films and had to run a scope trailer on one machine. It was great to see him hustle around to put the reel on and thread up that other machine.

There was a root beer drive-in outside the gate that you could see from the inside. It was a sure sign the evening was getting late when they turned off the revolving root beer mug on top.

This was never twinned…always a single screen.

For the record, Whitehall is an eastern suburb of Columbus, OH. There were 2 other drive-ins on E. Main Street in Whitehall, one was the Inn-Town and I think the other was the EastSide.