Pioneer Twin Drive-In
1255 S. State Street,
Provo,
UT
84606
1255 S. State Street,
Provo,
UT
84606
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G, I sure was, Oliver had a long run at the Uptown, and I thought Butch Cassidy was never going to leave the Rialto.
Chuck,I’m just thankful that it,amazingly,has survived,mostly intact.Yes,SLC once had one of the finest collections of downtown movie venues.Remember TAMPICO,between Main & State,in an alley.That and the Heidelberg,were my favs for dates when coming up from Happy Valley.Were you around when the Sound of Mucus played for over a year on Main St.?
G, sorry I went to the better of the two schools, that doesn’t mean we can’t be friends. My three older Brothers graduated from the “Y” so does that count? LOL I remember all the downtown theatres, Rialto, Studio, Utah, Uptown, Capitol, Towne, Centre, Lyric and if you wanted to be risque you could go to the Esquire. I almost forgot about the Cinema on Broadway around the corner from the Rialto, played mostly art films. My future wife talked me into taking her their to see “The Killing Of Sister George”. I lived at 5500 Redwood Road and worked part time at ZCMI downtown. Downtown was a bustling place at that time. Fridays and Saturdays you would go to the movies downtown and then cruise State St.
I really would like to see them do something wonderful with the Utah. That was an amazing theatre to be just left sitting there.
SO-you are saying Utah is a “different” kind of place? You betcha.I liked you till you said you wore RED.(lol) I am glad I am old enough to have lived in downtown SLC when most of the old theaters still operated.Walking to those wonderful bygone places was a thrill I did not appreciate enough at the time.I still wait to see the final fate of the UTAH.
G, since I was a U of U man we frequents the Redwood and the Holiday. But I think the majority of the theatres and drive-ins were well maintained in Utah. Probably has something to do with the enviroment.
Very popular with both locals and the BYU crowd for many years.What was so nice about the Pioneer,the Art City just to the South,as well as the two in Orem-they were CLEAN,safe and well-run.
The Pioneer Drive-In opened in 1948 as a single screen with a second added much later. The Drive-In closed in May 2001. Demolished in 2002 to make way for a housing development, grocery store and retail shops.
Photos can be seen at this link, click photos to enlarge.
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I spent many happy hours there in the mid sixties and a very few later.
Here is a 1983 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/nutyfr