Cottage View Drive-In
9338 E. Point Douglas Road South,
Cottage Grove,
MN
55016
9338 E. Point Douglas Road South,
Cottage Grove,
MN
55016
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Opened on 24/8/1966. Neon marquee.
another fuckin walmart!
Elko Speedway in Elko New Market, MN carries on the Torch of the Cottage Grove Drive-In utilizing its screen. We opened in 2014 and We’d love to have you out! Check out more details and seasonal showtimes at www.elkospeedway.com/drivein
You can guess what “Big Box” retail is on that site now, literally not a trace of it left.
Article and video about the final showing on 09-27-2012 can be read and seen here. Status showed now be changed to closed.
According to this article, the Cottage View Drive-in will close at the end of the 2012 season as the owner is declining to make the upgrade to digital projection: View link
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Interesting looking Marquee.
Well,guys did it reopen or is there a Wal-Mart there?
does anybody know? will we be blessed with another season of
Movies at the Cottage View Drive in
Every year they talk about a retail developement
Here is a 2007 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/loc9jd
Today’s (22. Sept 2007) Minneapolis Star-Tribune has a front page story about this Drive in. The news is not good. It sounds like this might be the last season. It seems the retail development is getting closer.
The Cottage View, I think, is the most classic Drive-In left in the Twin Cities area, and with the exception of the Starlite in Litchfield, the state of Minnesota. This theater has been in threat of demolition for a couple of years now. Plans to rip it out for retail development are in the making right now. I have contacted the city of Cottage Grove’s planning department regarding the proposal. There is, at least for right now, an interest in saving and restoring the Cottage View’s sign. I would hope there is an effort being put into saving that lovely sign at the very least. I’m hoping people from the area, and folks who love classic theaters will insist on this. That sign is perhaps one of the best remaining examples of roadside architecture in the whole Twin Cities metro area. It would also make sense to incorporate the drive – in itself into the new development as well. Big box retail, like the one proposed to replace the Cottge View have HUGE parking lots that sit entirely empty come night. People who think that the land is too valuable to keep the Cottage View on the site should really think about this one.
Here are some photos:
http://tinyurl.com/hjbpo
http://tinyurl.com/z6dp2
This source states that 7 drive ins are still open in Minnesota. Nice night photo of marquee:
http://www.mnfilm.org/fun/mn_cottage.asp
One of two remaining drive-ins in the Twin Cities. A far cry from the well-over twenty of 30 years ago.