Joy Drive-In
Highway 79/80,
Minden,
LA
71055
Highway 79/80,
Minden,
LA
71055
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The Joy was an inner city drive-in.
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Billy Smith / Don lewis
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Car Capacity in 1975 was 330.
“This particular Joy Drive In was actually in Shreveport rather than Minden and I saw some real clunkers here including 2000 Maniacs. It was a great place to take a date!”….Billy Smith
(What drive in wasn’t?) Don L.
The status should be closed. I doubt that the Joy is still operating. Here is an undated photo of the Joy Drive-In taken just before it opened.
The photo that Lost Memory posted was not the Joy Drive-In in Minden, it was the Joy Drive-In in Shreveport on Greenwood Rd where the main Post Office is located now. That is the one that is referred to in the post above by Don Lewis and Billy Smith. It was owned I believe by Edgar Hand and Joy Houck.
I will have more on the Joy Drive-In in Minden later.
1506 Shreveport Rd, Minden, LA 71055
The above address will map to the location of the drive-in. Hwy 79/80 is also Shreveport Road.
Here is a 1976 aerial photo of the drive-in, courtesy of Earth Explorer and USGS:
http://flic.kr/p/996wMd
Thanks NYozoner. The family had initally given me a location for it a few hundred yards west of there but you helped pinpoint it.
Here’s more on the history of the place
http://scottymoore.net/minden.html
Awesome history page! Great photos!