Smithtown All Weather Drive-In
Route 25 and Nesconset Highway,
Nesconset,
NY
11767
Route 25 and Nesconset Highway,
Nesconset,
NY
11767
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The Smithtown All Weather Drive-In was the second largest drive-in in New York with the largest being the Johnny All Weather Drive-In located in Copiague. The Smithtown All Weather Drive-In had a capacity for 2,500 cars and it also had an indoor theater. This was another UA owned theater. It had one outdoor screen and one indoor screen.
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Sorry L. I. forever, the names escape me…..but remeber havingsome fun times with those I worked with.
I remember this movie house very fondly. When my Aunt and Uncle – accompanied by my Grandmother – became part of the Brooklyn diaspora into Suffolk County during the early 1960’s, they settled into Selden, which was situated a few miles east of this theater. On two occasions – one outdoor and one inside – we visited this theater. While I distinctly remember seeing Disney’s “The Sword and the Stone” here, I don’t recall the other encounter. I do, however, recall that we greatly enjoyed both visits.
When my relatives moved to Selden, it was still part of the “country” and had not yet been wholly incorporated into an emerging suburbia. For a couple of years, in fact, an extensive forest existed just south of my relative’s property line. (It has now become the grounds of Selden High School.) So, just as Selden became part of suburbia, this old drive-in lived out its useful existence – and now hosts a “little boxes” type suburban development. Thus goes progress!
One little correction: the movie’s name was “The Sword IN the Stone”.
Very large drive-in.
tILSLOEWS see comment i made on screen partners.I know you will like it. This Drive-in is very very large.And it ain’t in Texas.
Growing up in the 70’s, I lived on the road located behind the outdoor screen here. At night if I had my bedroom window open, I could hear the movie playing. The summer of 1977 was incredible as I would listen to Star Wars each and every night.
My neighbors there built a deck in their backyard that would allow a angeled view of the screen, and I watched Star Wars at least 2 dozen times that way that summer.
Fun times!
During the late sixties..my family worked there from my mother at the ticket booth, my brother as an usher in the indoor theatre and myself in the concession stand where I specialized in knishes..deepfried full of heartburn. It was during the time of Bond’s “You Only Live Twice”
There’s an aerial short of the drive in (and many other theaters in this odd pamphlet:
http://movie-theatre.org/usa/ny/NYC/NY%20NYC%20Long%20Island.pdf
Described in this 1963 trade article: Boxoffice
Approx. location for this drive-in was just west of Jericho Turnpike & Alexander Ave. Deer Valley Dr. was the entrance.