Comments about Dixie Lee Drive-In in Knoxville, TN

Mike Rogers on January 6, 2012 at 3:02 pm

Thanks Nimrod,like up dates from K-town.

nimrod on January 5, 2012 at 3:55 pm

Dixie Lee Drive-in continued to show mostly soft X-rated movies with an occasional hard X as a special late feature on into the early 1980’s.

Mike Rogers on March 15, 2010 at 5:47 pm

It truly is amazing the screens you see from the past covered in moss in many rural towns like the Midway or Newport Drive-in. I have traveled that area even before the interstates as a kid and I remember Drive-ins almost carved into Mountains. Moonshine and drive-ins.

TLSLOEWS on March 15, 2010 at 5:30 pm

O.K. Mike.

Mike Rogers on March 15, 2010 at 5:21 pm

Tlsloews you guys and North Carolina have alot of Drive-ins and I have seen alot in East Tenn.

TLSLOEWS on March 15, 2010 at 5:14 pm

I did not know Tennessee had so many drive-ins at one time.

Mike Rogers on March 14, 2010 at 5:23 pm

The Dixie-Lee was considered a Knoxville theatre.Sept 19 1967 showing on that outdoor screen was Barbara Steele in “THE HORRIBLE DR. HICHCOCK”. and second feature on the “FESTIVAL OF FEAR” was “THE AWFUL DR.ORLOF”. This was playing day and date with the RIVER BREEZE Drive-in.

tntim on August 7, 2009 at 11:57 am

The Dixie Lee Drive-In was in Knox County, Lenoir City is in Loudon County. The 37934 zip code is considered Knoxville. If the site had been just a few yards to the west, it would have been in Loudon County and the zip would have been 37772 which is a Lenoir City zip code.

lostmemory on August 7, 2009 at 11:10 am

The only Dixie Lee drive-in that I can find for Tennessee in IMPA is the Dixie Lee located in Lenoir City. No Dixie Lee is listed for Knoxville.

Chuck1231 on August 6, 2009 at 11:43 pm

The building is the Cool Sport Icearium, so i guess the address would be the same.

SiliconSam on August 6, 2009 at 11:30 pm

The drive-in was right where the large white building is now in the center of this link:

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1992 imaging shows it there.

Chuck1231 on August 6, 2009 at 10:45 pm

The address given for the Cool Sports Icearium is 110 S. Watt Rd. which is right at the Dixie Lee Junction (Kingston Pike and Lee Highway).

Chuck1231 on August 6, 2009 at 10:26 pm

They also list the drive-in as being in Lenoir City, Tn. 37771

Chuck1231 on August 6, 2009 at 10:25 pm

Drive-Ins.com has an ad that says the drive-in was located at Dixie Lee Junction. They also say the car capacity was 300 cars. Concessions stand was demolished in 2002. On the site of the former drive-in is an ice arena.

bbrown1 on August 6, 2009 at 7:36 pm

I have seen mention of a Dixie Lee Drive-In Theatre in Lenoir City TN, but I am assuming it is this same drive-in, as it was actually located closer to the small town of Lenoir City that it was Knoxville

Dixie Lee Drive-In

Kingston Pike, Knoxville, TN 37934

Kingston Pike,
Knoxville, TN 37934