Mulberry Drive-In
Florida 60 at Turner Road,
Mulberry,
FL
33860
Florida 60 at Turner Road,
Mulberry,
FL
33860
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Opened as the Fran Linn Drive-In prior to 1955. The Mulberry Drive-In sits along Highway 60 between Mulberry and Brandon. The giant cement screen tower is visible for a good distance, even when it’s covered with vines during the summer. It appears that the screen had been enlarged at one point, though those additions have fallen off.
At the time of my first visit to the theater around 2001 or so, there was a house located where the concession stand would’ve been. By 2009, that house was gone. The ramps are still visible, as well as some crushed shells for the lot. The screen was demolished in early-2013.
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This was the Fran-Linn Drive-In Theaatre, later known as the Mulberry Drive-In Theatre.
I posted more images at View link
Thanks drewc. and for the pictures.
From looking at all the photos, it looks like the left side of the wide screen addition is still on the screen, but the right side is gone. What do you think?
The screen is built just like the WOODZO DRIVE-IN in Newport,Tenn.only the WOODZO was painted yellow.
Your welcome Chuck1231. The link to the second photo you posted is from my other Flickr account. They were all shot on the same day.
Video from 1997: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90C71FTs-6g
Approx. address for this drive-in was 4020 Florida 60.
I drove past this site today and saw that the entire screen structure has been removed. All that remains is an empty field.
In the early to mid 1950s my father worked at this theater. I was just 3-5 years old. We lived in Mulberry just a few miles east of the theater. It was my fathers job to open the theater for the evening showing. This was my fathers 2nd job. First, we would first go to the ICE house in Mulberry and pickup a ice for the concession (before commercial ice machines). We then went to the theater and open the concession, crush the ice, put the movie reel (I think we got this from the post office) in the projector room (someone else came a little later and ran the projector). Finally, my dad would go to the ticket booth and begin selling tickets. At that moment, ours was the only car in the theater. Us kids, with my mother would play on the play ground until the movie started. All this happened before sundown. I remember seeing the Creature from the Black Lagoon (scarry) and many others ….