Sumner Drive-In
1401 Nashville Pike,
Gallatin,
TN
37066
1401 Nashville Pike,
Gallatin,
TN
37066
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Was still there in 2006.
Wilson Living Magazine said the Sumner closed at the end of the 1999 season, and that two of the patrons in the audience were inspired to build their own drive-in, which became the Stardust in Watertown.
https://www.wilsonlivingmagazine.com/stardust-drive-in/
Loved this drive-in. Went many times when I was in college. I took a pair of car-hop speakers and wired them to my home stereo. Still have them out in my living room and they both work. Hated to see it torn down. If I’m not mistaken, half of the neon is on display somewhere in Gallatin and the other half at the Stardust out in Watertown.
And Ken it was Sumner not Summer.
Maybe thats all the letters they had.
All that marquee and all they could put up was"ET" lazy employees.
Here is another 1984 photo. Misidentified as the Summer Drive-In:
http://tinyurl.com/lq66p6
There is a photo of the marquee on this page:
http://www.driveinmovie.com/TN.htm
Saw MAS*H there.