Whalom Drive-In
357 Electric Avenue,
Lunenburg,
MA
01462
357 Electric Avenue,
Lunenburg,
MA
01462
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Silbio Williams owned the Whalom Drive-In in 1955, and into the early-1960s. Capacity was for 500 cars.
Today only the marquee remains.
Contributed by
Ken McIntyre
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I did. Nothing on your favorite site, drive-ins.com. Only found info on Whalom in IMPA.
That’s my point. Without another source, you can’t tell if the IMPA information is correct. You have nothing to compare it to. I could use IMPA lists to add lots of drive-ins but I don’t do it. When I add a drive-in, I usually find it somewhere and then I check the IMPA to verify the information that the source gives. If the information doesn’t match and I can’t find an additional source, I don’t add that drive-in.
I haven’t found the IMPA to have fabricated any theaters so far, so I will continue as I have been. Kudos on your thoroughness, though.
Well, actually, the Whalom IS on www.drive-ins.com It’s listed as beiing in Fitchburg, not Lunenberg, though. The page is here.
It’s noted on the page that the screen burnt down, although I think this happened after it had closed, and was not a factor in the drive-in closing.
It’s actually just North of the town of Whalom.
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Whalom is not the name of an a actual town in Massachusetts.
There appear to be two entries for this drive-in on Cinema Treasures; this one listing it in Lunenburg, and another listing it in Fitchburg. One of them needs to be removed, and if my understanding is correct…it should be the Fitchburg entry. Either way, we only need one entry for this drive-in.
If we keep this one, change it to ‘Closed/Demolished’. It’s long, long gone.
The strange thing is that the same person submitted both listings. Musn’t had done a search before submitting one of them.
It still maps out as being in Lunenburg not Fitchburg.
Apparently I was not paying attention when I was typing my previous post. It was DEFINITELY in Lunenburg, not Fitchburg. The drive-in was down the road from Whalom Park. The screen burnt down some years after it closed. So, I apologize for my “brain fade” earlier.
There IS an Electric Avenue in Fitchburg, but there are no theatres along that short span of road.