Broadway Drive-Inn
Highway 11 North,
2883 Grainger Station Road,
Kinston,
NC
28501
Highway 11 North,
2883 Grainger Station Road,
Kinston,
NC
28501
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Broadway Drive-Inn theater was built in 1949 by Charles A. Broadway Jr. He built and operated it from 1950 until April 1973. It is located on Highway 11, 5 miles north of Kinston near Graingers, and has a car capacity for 250. It is still owned by the Broadway family.
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So this place doubled as a hotel? :–)
Must be a typo.My 1956 Motion Picture Almanac has Broadway DRIVE-IN.Run by L.J.New.
Of course it was a typo, Mike. That’s what I was making fun of.
It’s bad enough people submit page write-ups in such condition, but the Cinema Treasures editor ought to catch such things before posting. (I guess our editor was too busy celebrating the overrated 30,000 theater accomplishment instead of, you know, proof reading and copy editing.)
As your esteemed editor, I did edit as per usual, and gave this some thought, but allowed it go through as submitted. I took it as being the correct spelling, as the theatre was submitted by the actual owner, but maybe the owner of the property is wrong! Let’s see what he says.
Yeah, I am really going to cut back just submitting Theatres unless i have the address.So many older Theatres never had the Street address or even the city could have been wrong when you assume because it is in the paper, heck it might be miles away.I have had that happen a lot,but members are quick to pick it up and get theatre in the right town.
How would celebrating 30,000 theatre accomplishment be considered overrated? As far as proof reading and editing I am sure there are many members that feel Ken Roe does a fantastic job as well as Pat & Ross feeling the same way. Look what he has done for the UK on CT.
I never realized there were that many theatres in Great Britian.
An Inn sometimes can mean a Restaurant or Tavern. It could have been a play on words and been a Drive Inn Restaurant and a Drive-Inn Theater?
Need a better address, I can’t find the theater on the Map.
More info and photos are always welcome.
Was the Broadway Drive-Inn the same theatre as the North 11 Drive-In? That is the only drive-in I know of on Highway 11 that has any remnants still standing (in North 11’s case the marquee is all that remains). The North 11 played XXX movies until around 1980. The other drive-in I know of being on Highway 11 North was the Bright Leaf,closer to town near the Highland Avenue intersection and run by Stewart & Everett. Bright Leaf was demolished about 1975.
The 1955 edition of Theatre Catalog lists the following drive-in theatres in Kinston; Bright Leaf Drive-In with 396 cars operated by E.G. Hill Broadway Drive-In with 200 cars and an address given as Highway 70, operated by C.A. Broadway Kinston Drive-In with 180 cars Nu Pont Drive-In with 250 cars Both the Kinston and the Nu Pont were operated by Max Reinhardt Exibitors Service