Livingston Drive-In
State Highway 10,
Livingston,
NJ
07039
State Highway 10,
Livingston,
NJ
07039
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The Livingston Drive-In was located between the Holiday Inn hotel (now the Hotel Westminster) and a car dealership. It originally opened in 1961 as part of the General Cinema chain and sometime in the early 1980’s GCC sold it to private owners who operated it until 1985 when the site was sold to developers who built an office complex.
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Rick Schwarz
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I went to the Livingston Drive-in many times as a child. The eastern edge of the lot was used by day as a motor vehicle inspection station. Back then, yearly car inspections could only be performed at a state inspection station, not at a garage, but it was free. This inspection site was open-air, had only a small shed, and had 4 metal plates in the ground, on which the inspector would slam on the car brakes as he drove over them, thus measuring the braking ability of each wheel. A simple swing arm gate prevented night time theater patrons from inadvertantly driving over them. The drive-in was located on the north side of route 10, which is also called Mount Pleasant Avenue. The entrance was near Widger Chevrolet and Warnock-Ryan Dodge. I think that this was the place that provided us with a heater to use on a chilly evening.
Approx. address for this drive-in was 590 West Mount Pleasant Avenue.
Regent St. was the entrance (long driveway) and splits where the drive-in stood. YMCA and the series of buildings across the street (including Topaz International) makes up the drive-in property.