Wildwood Twin Drive-In
1500 Route 47,
Middle Township,
NJ
08242
1500 Route 47,
Middle Township,
NJ
08242
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So was the theater demolished?
Approx. address for this drive-in was 1500 Route 47, Middle Township, NJ 08242.
Now Rio Grande Plaza.
I grew up in Rio Grande and lived on 3rd. street, behind the drive in. From my back yard your could see the entire screen which was maybe 1/8 mile away. During the early 60’s my father and a neighbor ran wire from the one of the speaker terminals in the back row and into our backyard. We were living!!….we could sit in lawn chairs and watch the movies. A couple of years later they paved Maryland Ave., the road between us and the drive in, and ripped up the wire….the party was over. The drive in had a nice little playground right in front of the screen that we as kids hung out in along with the surrounding woods and fields. Those who have never rolled up to a speaker post, hung the speaker on the car window and walked over to the Snack Bar during intermission have never “lived.”
1987 arial.
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Around 1981 or 82 I was there with my family in our 55 chevy to see “The Swarm” with Henry Fonda. The manager “Ed”, from Millville offered me a P/T job as manager/operator for 40 bucks a night. I declined because I was already working @ the Atlantic Drive-in, & as a Rural Letter Carrier in the daytime.
I remember Rio Grande. There used to be a Starn’s supermarket there that my mother went to once in a while. I don’t remember the drive-in, though.
Hey Mikeoaklandpark, don’t go to Wildwood now or you’ll lose your lunch. The old Shore Twins was demolished, and is just a big dirt lot. Only theatre left is the Strand which looks like hell from the boardwalk.
Thanks Lost memory. What a great site. I remember all the theaters in Wildwood. It’s a shame they all closed and were ruined when the Frank Family purchased them in 1986.They ruined everyhing they touched.
Drive-ins listing:
http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/njtwild
I had never heard of a Rio Grande in NJ!
Must have been settled by folks from the great Southwest.