Coram Drive In
3700 Route 112,
Coram,
NY
11727
3700 Route 112,
Coram,
NY
11727
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The Coram Drive-In was one of a number of small drive ins built by Prudential. The site eventually was used for a small multiples, now shuttered.
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Assoc.Prudential Playhouse,Inc. was the full name.No car capacity listed in 1956 Almanac.
Somewhere out there I know there is a drive-in site which might have the car capacity. I can’t remember the name, however. But then, again, I wonder how accurate it is since they list a drive in in Centereach Long Island for which I can find no substantiating evidence.
Also, there is an ice cream parlour in Middle Island or Ridge on the south side of Route 25 that has several of the old theatre cards advertising the drive in among its movie related memoriabilia.
PLEASE CHANGE ADDRESS TO:
ROUTE 112 & ROUTE 25
3700 Route 112 is almost a half mile to far South.
Held 880 cars
Opened June 4, 1954, closed ~1984 or~1985? Can anyone verify the exact dates?
Owners:
1961-1964 Associated Purdential Theaters, Inc.
1967 Prudential New York Theaters, Inc. of Merrick, Long Island, N.Y., Edward Seider, President, they had 80 theaters in Conneceticut, New Jersey, New York and Wisconsin.
1969 Purdential Management Corp.
1975-1985 United Artist Theaters
More info and photos are always welcome.
The reason I used 3700 was because that is the address CT shows for the UA Coram which was built on the site of the drive-in. The theatre cards I’ve seen and the ads, and the Prudential guide always said Rts 112 & 25. So you’re saying the address for the UA is wrong also. Maybe that had a real address that we can trace back.