Hamptons Drive-In
2044 Montauk Highway,
Bridgehampton,
NY
11932
2044 Montauk Highway,
Bridgehampton,
NY
11932
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This theater was located in Bridgehampton, Long Island. It closed in the early-1980’s. It was demolished and the Bridgehampton Commons Shopping Center was built on the property.
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So many of these drive-ins survived into the 1980’s.
The 1980’s was a bad time for them, as the multiplexes were popping up everywhere, and it was the final straw for many of them. Ironically, some of the multiplexes even replaced the drive-ins on their exact location, such as the UA Movies at Coram being built on the Coram Drive-In site, and the UA Movies at Patchogue 13 being built on the Patchogue Drive-In site. Interestingly, UA did not replace it’s Shirley UA Drive-In with a multiplex, presumable because it was fairly close to Patchogue.
By the way, the map above doesn’t work because Bridgehampton is one word. It confuses me all the time too….East Hampton is two words, but Bridgehampton and Westhampton are one word – go figure.
In 1997 there were plans to build another drive-in in East Hampton. This article explains it.
I visited this theater often in the 60’s and 70’s. Standard refreshment stand and kiddie playground. Always a double feature with intermission time. Closed about 1982 amd the King Kullen shopping center in the Bridgehampton Commons expanded and took over the site of this old drive-in. Sad to see it go, but real estate prices were the culprit.
I never had the opportunity to go to this drive-in. It closed down before I ever got my driver’s license. However, I can still remember the remake of KING KONG playing there in early 1977 and begging, begging, begging my parents to drive us to Bridehampton to see it again. You see, at age 9, this was my favorite movie, until STAR WARS came around and changed everything!
In reply to the third post above concerning drive ins being replaced by indoors on the same lot: This link
http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/gatnort
takes you to a page with pictures at the bottom. The one in the lower right corner has two overhead views of the lot, one as a drive in and one with the new indoor.
This site has some information. Opening date given is July 1, 1955.
I never realized that that shopping center was once a drive in.
And referencing Bway’s 2004 posting both the Coram and Patchogue Multiplexes on the sites of former drive-in have also closed. You can see the Coram from the road but the Patchogue was never visible from Sunrise Highway. All you can see is the pylon and a fence.
My parents took my sister and I to quite a few movies there in the late ‘70’s and early '80’s during the summertime when we spent the weekends at our grand parents house in the hamptons. It was so much fun sitting in chairs outside watching movies on a huge screen! The first movie I know I saw there when I was 6 years old was Star Wars in 1977 and became a huge fan ever of the series ever since. Meatballs with Bill Murray was another one I remember seeing there as well as a few others. Its too bad that it closed down. I have been to the shopping center to shop and the memories of the times there really come back to me when we shop there. Have not seen too many drive-ins around since this one.
Westbury was the last on Long Island. There are still some upstate and in Ct. They’re more popular in other parts of the country.