Often on weekends the line of cars waiting to get in would exceed the length of the access road and back up traffic on northbound 72nd street. However, most of this traffic was just going to the drive-in anyway. My family and I were some of the last customers at this drive-in in the late ‘80s, probably 87 or 88. We were there to see Transformers (the feature length cartoon). About halfway through the movie, the projector broke down or something and we all had to leave early. Just weeks later we drove by and noticed it was shut down. Today, it is the only one in the Omaha Metro Area in which the land still sits and has not been redeveloped. Apparently, it was reopened in the mid-nineties, not as a drive-in but as a driving range for golfers.
Though my family and I frequented this drive-in in the late 70s and early 80s, my only vivid recollection of the place was watching the area being landscaped in 1989 after it was demolished. My mother and I watched from a location just to the east of it, a grassy knoll on the grounds of a small building which is probably gone now, too.
Often on weekends the line of cars waiting to get in would exceed the length of the access road and back up traffic on northbound 72nd street. However, most of this traffic was just going to the drive-in anyway. My family and I were some of the last customers at this drive-in in the late ‘80s, probably 87 or 88. We were there to see Transformers (the feature length cartoon). About halfway through the movie, the projector broke down or something and we all had to leave early. Just weeks later we drove by and noticed it was shut down. Today, it is the only one in the Omaha Metro Area in which the land still sits and has not been redeveloped. Apparently, it was reopened in the mid-nineties, not as a drive-in but as a driving range for golfers.
Saw many movies here in the late 70s and early 80s. Not sure when it was demolished, but I watched the area being landscaped in 1989.
Though my family and I frequented this drive-in in the late 70s and early 80s, my only vivid recollection of the place was watching the area being landscaped in 1989 after it was demolished. My mother and I watched from a location just to the east of it, a grassy knoll on the grounds of a small building which is probably gone now, too.