Cinema Park Drive-In
800 E. Missouri Avenue,
Phoenix,
AZ
85014
800 E. Missouri Avenue,
Phoenix,
AZ
85014
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The Cinema Park Drive-In was open by 1950. Car capacity was listed at 880. It was said to be the first air-cooled drive-in in the United States, making use of five helicopter blades to propel 500,000 cubic feet of water-impregnated air over the 10 acre site. The misty, circulated air did the cooling job. Using the same equipment as that used in citrus groves to combat frost, the air conditioned theatre was a success with patrons. It was operated by Plitt Theatres when it closed in the mid-1970’s.
The drive-in was demolished and a strip shopping center and apartment complex is now where the theatre once stood.
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Chuck
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Map showing where the drive-in once stood from drive-ins.com
http://www.drive-ins.com/pictures/aztcine001.jpg
1970 (and other years) aerial photos at
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From your aerial link there is no trace of the drive-in in the 1986 aerial.