Cedar Valley Drive-In
Cedartown Highway & Industrial Boulevard SE,
Rome,
GA
30161
Cedartown Highway & Industrial Boulevard SE,
Rome,
GA
30161
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The Cedar Valley Drive-In opened in 1949. On the rear of the screen was a mock two story Plantation Colonial style house. The Cedar Vally Drive-In had a capacity for 700 cars.
When I did my undergraduate student teaching in 1979 at Georgia School for the Deaf in Cave Spring, I noticed this drive-in. I am not sure of the street address but it was across the highway from Floyd Junior College.
At the time it was showing "adult films" only on the weekends.
I drove by there sometime in the early-1990’s and the whole area had just been leveled.
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Jesse Brantley
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The Cedar Valley Drive-In had only recently opened when it was featured in an article for the Modern Theatre section of Boxoffice Magazine’s issue of October 1, 1949. The drive-in was designed by the noted Atlanta firm of Tucker & Howell, architects of many theaters in the region.
Photos accompanying the article showed the Southern Colonial style of the buildings which, to my eye, presented a rather alarming contrast with the 60-foot screen tower- as though some bucolic plantation house had inexplicably collided with a boxy Midwestern grain elevator, perhaps carried thither by a tornado.
The Cedar Valley Drive-In could accommodate 500 cars, and featured a landscaped playground, an outdoor seating area for patrons who might enjoy watching movies from beach chairs, and a pair of small artificial lakes flanking the entrance, romantically reflecting the lighted buildings and screen tower by night.
1986 photo of the Cedar Valley Drive-In.
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Love the picture. I don’t remember the screen being so close to the highway but like I said in my original post it was almost 30 years ago when I saw the theater.
I took Pictures of the drive in when it was turned into a HAUNTED PALACE for Halloween.Theatre was closed.
Photo of the Cedar Valley Drive-In, click to enlarge.
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Opening advertisement.
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Cedartown Hwy & Industrial Blvd SE, Rome, GA 30161
The above address will map accurately to the location of the drive-in.
Here is a USGS topo map which notes the location of the drive-in, courtesy of MSRMaps.com.