Southington Drive-In
Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike,
Southington,
CT
06479
Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike,
Southington,
CT
06479
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Your typical drive-in of the 1950’s, this actually opened in 1954. Featured in-car heaters that made the drive-in loads of fun in the winter. The Southington Drive-In had a wonderful neon/flashing light roadside sign which, unfortunately, was downsized to about half its original design sometime in the late-1970’s. Later, a second screen was added, which wasn’t such a bad thing and actually made for better use of the property.
The theater went dark in 2002, one of the last remaining drive-ins in CT. It was reopened on June 26, 2010, as a single screen.
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Bob Whitworth
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See a 1955 newspaper ad for the Southington Drive-In with its “giant curved Cinemascope screen” at View link
Here is a recent photo.
I was there a couple of week ago and took these photos (one of which, Lost Memory already linked you to above):
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Car capacity in 1975 was 1,100.
I have a short video of this drive -in…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Veh9YAFWT6Y
Shot around 1991.
This drive-in will reopen on June 26, 2010 as a single screen venue run by the town. Capacity will be 300 cars and it will show movies on Saturday nights through the summer.
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New website http://www.southingtondrive-in.org/
March 24 1970 and “BOB,CAROL,TED,ALICE” is playing along with a second feature called “THE MAD ROOM” in car heaters!
The address for this drive-in is 935 Meriden-Waterbury Turnpike.