Lakeshore Drive-In

1000 N. State Road 7,
Margate, FL 33313

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FloridaDriveIns
FloridaDriveIns on December 12, 2011 at 4:39 pm

Video from 1997: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3bqORshJfg

lostmemory
lostmemory on December 17, 2008 at 6:42 pm

Listed in 1980 as the Margate Drive-in with a capacity for 500 cars.

sporridge
sporridge on August 14, 2008 at 3:11 pm

Drive-in movies ceased in 1984 (second-run 99 cent admission by then), but the Lake Shore (two words) site remained home to the Lake Shore Motel (guests once had free access to movies) and Margate Swap Shop (smaller complement to Henn’s Sunrise Blvd. colossus). Margate’s Community Redevelopment Agency acquired the property in 2006, as part of the Margate Town Center redevelopment corridor.

Primary memory: an early 70s revival of “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” crammed onto the Lake Shore’s tiniest screen (of corrugated metal).

UA would open an eightplex around the corner a couple years later (Movies at Margate, itself long since demolished for a Wal*Mart).

AlAlvarez
AlAlvarez on August 11, 2008 at 11:54 am

Also known as the Margate Drive-In.

Harvey
Harvey on June 26, 2008 at 5:35 pm

Article on Preston Henn, Miami Drive-In mogul here.