Berlin Drive-In
225 Wilbur Cross Highway,
Berlin,
CT
06037
225 Wilbur Cross Highway,
Berlin,
CT
06037
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The Berlin Drive-In was one of several terrific drive-ins on the Berlin Turnpike, which runs between Meriden and Hartford, CT. Before I-91 was completed in the early 1960s, the Berlin Turnpike (US Route 5 and CT Route 15) was THE road between these two cities, and featured some tremendous 50s/60s googie architecture, neon, roadside attractions, and the like.
The Berlin Drive-In fit right in. It remained a first-run theater until sometime in the 1970s, when the format changed to adult films exclusively. Demolished in the 1980s (?) to make way for strip mall/big box development.
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The correct address for the Berlin Drive-In was 225 Wilbur Cross Highway, Berlin, Ct. 06037. This address will map it correctly also.
I vaguely remember driving by the Berlin Drive-In once in it’s X-rated days just before it closed and seeing the screen and the fence. It was right down the road from the Hartford Drive-In and the Pike Drive-In. This would have been in the mid- to late-80’s.
I remember the Berlin Drive-In, I was too young to see the movies there. Home Depot and a very good Chinese buffet place is there now.
Car capacity given in 1975 was 1,500.
Here is an excerpt from the Hartford Courant dated May 11, 1968:
Theater Sold for $400,000
BERLIN — The Berlin Drive-in Theater at Rt. 5 and Deming Road, owned by Front Drive-In Theater Inc., has been sold to Darryl-Deb, Corp., according to records on file in the town clerk’s office.
The Berlin Drive-In opened in 1958. Owner at that time was George LeWitt.