White Horse Pike Drive-In
310 White Horse Pike,
Lawnside,
NJ
08045
310 White Horse Pike,
Lawnside,
NJ
08045
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Lasted until the late-1960’s or early-1970’s, then replaced by a shopping center. The center kept the drive-in’s tower, topped by a large white horse, as a landmark.
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To see a photo of the above mentioned HORSE click below.
http://www.drive-ins.com/pictures/njtwhit002.jpg
More info and more photos are always welcome.
This was a very mysterious and short-lived drive-in.
Here is a 1963 aerial photo of the location, courtesy of HistoricAerials.com.
You will notice the drive-in is not there in 1963, and by switching over to the 1970 aerial imagery, the location has already been developed into a shopping center.
Here is a 1965 aerial photo of the same location, courtesy of Earth Explorer and USGS, where you can now view the drive-in. It appears this drive-in opened sometime between 1963 and 1965, and was demolished sometime before 1970.
There may have been a connection between this theater and the Black Horse Pike Drive-In a few miles away. Both theaters had towers topped by very similar large horse figures. There was a sign with an attraction board for this drive-in at the Collingswood traffic circle; after it closed, the board read “VISIT BLACK HORSE DRIVE IN” for a long time. (The sign was actually much closer to the Black Horse.) It’s possible that the Black Horse was opened as a replacement for this one, although the two sites are far enough apart that they could have drawn from different population bases to some extent.
I drove past this shopping center many times, but never saw it as a drive-in.