Lakeland Drive-In
4300 South Florida Avenue,
Lakeland,
FL
33813
4300 South Florida Avenue,
Lakeland,
FL
33813
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The Lakeland Drive-In opened in 1950 and closed in 1980. A shopping center as been built on the site that has the Palm Cinema, a Mugs & Movies, as one of the tenants.
For many years, the Lakeland Drive-In was owned and operated by Floyd Theatres.
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Michael Hurley
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The Lakeland Drive-In had a capacity for 456 cars in 1975.
Are you positive that this drive-in closed in 1980? My family went here often and I remember my brother and I playing around, he was born in 1980. Palm Cinema opened in 1986 and I’m pretty sure six years did not pass between the drive-in closing and Palm Cinema opening. Floyd owned the land and drive-in and sold the land with the condition that the shopping center developers allow Floyd to build a new theater on the property (Palm Cinema 3).
Playing “SEVEN MINUTES” and “MYRA BRECKINRIDGE”.Two very poor movies.
It was a C.W. Murell Theatre in 1956.
1958 aerial posted here.