Lacey Drive-In
700 Sleater-Kinney Road SE,
Lacey,
WA
98503
700 Sleater-Kinney Road SE,
Lacey,
WA
98503
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Boxoffice, May 30, 1953: “The Zabel family has opened its new $100,000 Lacey Drive-In at Slater-Kinney road, near the Old Tacoma highway. The 500-car outdoorer will be operated by Arthur, Kenneth and Hobart Zabel. They recently celebrated their 44th year of film operation in Olympia. The business was founded in May 1909 by Ed Zabel. The sons said they continue to operate the Capitol Theatre.”
Boxoffice, May 16, 1953: “The new Lacy (sic) Drive-In at Olympia opened April 29.”
The 1955-56 Theatre Catalog included the Lacey under Olympia. The owner was Robert S. Clark of Saffle Th. Serv., capacity 500 cars.
I have now added my hand drawn map of the theater property to the photos page for this theater.
Screen tower was all wood construction with telephone poles as the main support. The picture area was 40 feet by 94 feet with a flat black masking border painted on it. The tower did not angle toward the ramps. It was straight. The face of the picture area was all asbestos tiles.
Here is the Link
Link to an aerial photo of the Lacey drive-in taken in 1957.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/58299528@N05/5375694066/in/photostream
The checkstands of the Fred Meyer store entrance “A” approximate where the screen tower once stood.
I contributed some of the photos and information to Arthur Allen’s Drive-ins of Western Washington site.
In November 1981 there was a huge windstorm that blew down the left one-third of the screen. Theater closed and sat for several years before being torn down.
When did this drive-in close?