66 Drive-In
17231 Old 66 Boulevard,
Carthage,
MO
64836
17231 Old 66 Boulevard,
Carthage,
MO
64836
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Originally opened in the early days of American post war drive-in boom in 1949. The 66 Drive-In had parking for 400 cars and a seating area for 18 walk-in patrons. It went dark as eventually most drive-ins did after the boom had gone bust.
The story of the 66 Drive-In didn’t end in darkness though. In one of the most ambitious efforts of the dozens that have succeeded in resurrecting abandoned drive-ins, the old 66 Drive-In was brought back from brink and reopened in 1997.
Now it is open seasonally and the big screen shows double features with the audio provided by local FM radio broadcast. Admission is $5.00 for 13 and up. Children 12 and under are a $1.00. No charge for a child if they are in a car set.
It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.
Contributed by
Chuck Van Bibber
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Another 2008 photo can be seen here.
This is a photo from 1992.
Here is a 2009 photo.
Who built this drive-in?
I thought “you"did. I was a manager for your firm the 1970’s in Salina, Ks, and I was always under the impression that was a Dickinson house. Dickinson also operated the Webb City Drive-in a short distance from this theatre.
lostmemory, this another notice that you are illegally uploading my photos from flickr to this website. Please read and remove the photo>>>>COPYRIGHT NOTICE: All photographs, text and html coding appearing in this/my Flickr site are protected under United States and international copyright laws. No images are within Public Domain. Use of any image as the basis for another photographic concept or illustration is a violation of copyright. Please do NOT steal my photos, scans or anything in my photostream for your little blogs or websites, Pinterest or Tumblr, Facebook or any other “social media”., or use them for any commercial or non-commercial, for or non-profit uses and please, don’t link to them AT ALL ANYWHERE. ALL photos here are NOT available for purchase. No, you may NOT use them for free, so please don’t waste your/my time asking. (That includes the “but we’ll give you a photo credit” crowd.)
All the photos on the photo page for this theatre were taken by member of Cinema Treasures. Linking to a photo is not an infringement on the copy right. If that was so then the photos should not be displayed on a public site like Flickr. Any one can go to flickr and see the photos.
All photos uploaded to this website attached to my name were personally taken by me and not pulled from any other source. If someone is linking to a flickr page it is not being uploaded or stolen from you, it is linking to your flickr page.
Norman, he should should have set up his flickr account so that it was private. I noticed he has since making such a squabble about linking he has finally done that. Not one o his photos are in the Cinema Treasures Photo base. So there is not copyright infringement.
I guess I’m fortunate. I have a color copy of the picture at the top of this page. From the site “ComeVisit” in 1998. I think I’ll frame it.