66 Drive-In
5900 S. LaGrange Road,
Countryside,
IL
60525
5900 S. LaGrange Road,
Countryside,
IL
60525
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The newer Quarry Theater is just south of were this theater was. Surprised the Quarry wsn’t named Rt66 Theater since it’s right off route 66.
Most amusing were the newspaper ads about the “shocking” triple features, with such phrases as “the birth of a baby before your eyes” or “nurses in attendance” or “armed guards will check IDs for age.” (Sadly, this was before I lived in the area and could see the screen from my condo balcony.)
May 28th, 1948 grand opening ad has been posted here.
1962 View
Definitely 66 Drive-In … I lived next to it for 9 years. It was more like a few hundred feet north of the old Route 66
This has to be the drive-in we frequented in the 1950s when we were in high school, but, as I recall, its name was the 66 Drive-In Theater, probably so named because US 66 crossed LaGrange Road maybe a mile – if even that far – south of the theater’s location. Many of the occupants of cars in the back rows of the drive-in never seemed to be too interested on what was going on on the screen.