Denniston Drive-In
6501 N. Monroe Street,
Monroe,
MI
48162
6501 N. Monroe Street,
Monroe,
MI
48162
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The Denniston Drive-In opened in April of 1956. The opening night movies were “Blood Alley” with John Wayne and Lauren Bacall & “Seven Cities of Gold” with Richard Egan. This drive-in had a capacity for 1,000 cars. The Denniston Drive-In closed around 1985.
In March 2021 construction was underway to build a new drive-in on the property. It was named Memory Lane Drive-In which has its own page on Cinema Treasures.
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Here is a link:
http://www.michigandriveins.com/detail.asp?id=66
Updated Denniston page: michigandriveins.com/denniston66.asp
there is a plan to bring it back!
https://www.monroenews.com/news/20160901/drive-in-theater-proposed-for-frenchtown-township
still good got a go ahead
https://www.monroenews.com/news/20161008/drive-in-theatre-plan-gets-preliminary-okay
articles are from september and october of 2016 but i couldn’t find any other info and would love to know if this will happen or become one of thousand drive-in reopening proposals that doesn’t go through.
update found an article from 2018 that says the project has everyone’s go ahead but no work has started.
https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1WPZB_enUS691US765&ei=YRNJXMfWOsni0gK-sLsI&q=monroe+mi%27s+gets+new++drive-in+theater&oq=monroe+mi%27s+gets+new++drive-in+theater&gs_l=psy-ab.3…30497.34206..34494…0.0..0.375.2165.0j2j6j1……0….1..gws-wiz.emyGPBuqj6A
Also opened with “Seven cities of gold”.
The Memory Lane Drive is now PERMANENTLY CLOSED. The owner has given numerous reasons why the driver in will not open for 2024 and instead be closed permanently. One was attendance, that is funny because you would have thought after buying land on a former another drive-in that sat empty for 32 years before he bought it that sits next to a closed 3 screen cinema might be a sign of, uh this might be a bad idea. Instead he opened Memory Lane, awful name in 2021. He added a second screen in 2023, although he said the drve-in had low attendance. And now closed a year later. The things people will do for tax a write off.