Duwamish Drive-In
11200 Tukwila International Boulevard,
Seattle,
WA
98168
11200 Tukwila International Boulevard,
Seattle,
WA
98168
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The Duwamish Drive-In was located next to the Duwamish River in Seattle Washington. It had a capacity for 600 cars and closed around 1982. The property is now used as office space for Boeing.
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The old name for Tukwila International Boulevard is Pacific Highway S. which still appears on Mapquest for some reason. If you look at the map you will see the intersection of Pacific Highway S and S 112th St. The theater was to the left on S 112th St. The following link has some photos which will show you where this theater was located.
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The Duwamish Drive In Theater was on 99 Highway/Pacific Highway/Evergreen Highway (all names are correct for the same highway) right where you’d cross over the Duwamish River bridge into Seattle. It was so near the Boeing Plant that Boeing employees were its primary customers, & night shift workers could sometimes time it to go right from the theater to work. Also, if you’d missed the double-bill at the Midway Drive-in fifteen miles south on the same highway, it would play the following week at the Duwamish, so you had a second chance. It was one of the first of the regional drive-ins to give up the ghost in the late 1970s, reopened once or twice for brief failed attempts, then sat unused for another decade or so as a reminder of days gone by. Today it has Boeing buildings on it because company expansion took over the land, but old trees planted by my great-grandfather back when it was a drive-in still shade the back edge of the property overlooking the river. www.weirdwildrealm.com
As of now (2011), the tall trees that were planted on the riverside are being cut down. Looks like nobody will know that there was a drive-in at that location.
This opened on May 11th, 1948. Ad posted here.