Popular Drive-In
577 Foster Avenue,
Freeland,
PA
18224
577 Foster Avenue,
Freeland,
PA
18224
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This opened on June 18th, 1949
Popular Drive in opening Sat, Jun 18, 1949 – 18 · Standard-Sentinel (Hazleton, Pennsylvania) · Newspapers.com
Interesting name!! Did it close because it was no longer popular?
577 Foster Avenue, Freeland, PA is the correct address. From a 1966 aerial, the screen sat on the SE back of the lot.
Today, it is private property with no trace of the drive-in remaining save for the entrance/exit road which is now the driveway. http://tinyurl.com/ydxnct2g
The “3 part metal pole” is used to protect the water or gas meter in the middle of it.
A good address for this would be 577 Foster Avenue, Freeland PA. A house sits on the site now. Google street view from October of 2016 shows some kind of 3 part metal pole base at the head of the driveway, Bing Streetside from August 2011 shows the same, plus the base and frame of another sign structure next to it.
This is from Boxoffice in February 1954:
Joseph Lazo’s Popular Drive-in in Freeland is being serviced by Sandy Gottlieb, Tri-State Theaters. This is the twenty second drive-in being serviced by Gottlieb.