Jet Drive-In
3531 Mobile Highway,
Montgomery,
AL
36108
3531 Mobile Highway,
Montgomery,
AL
36108
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Opened March 14, 1952 with John Payne in “Passage West”. The Jet Drive-In was owned Matthew Suraci & Jimmy Suraci. It had a capacity of 500-cars. In August 1955 they sold it to R.M. Kennedy. In June 1970 it was sold to Wilby-Kincey. Towards the end of its life, it exhibited adult films and was closed on September 5, 1982.
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Approx. address for this drive-in was 3531 Mobile Highway, Montgomery. AL 36108. Now AAA Moving & Storage.
Please update to new address:
3531 Mobile Hwy, Montgomery, AL 36108
Opened with “Passage west”. The entrance and exit roads are still there(possibly the marquee, screen, some ramps, and the snack bar/bio box are still there too?).
Independent Film Journal, Aug. 20, 1955: “Matthew Suraci sold his Jet Drive-In at Montgomery, Ala.”
The entrance and exit roads are still present. Along with the brick-base of the marquee. But everything else that was part of the drive-in is long gone.
The Jet Drive-In closed on September 5, 1982 with a dusk-to-dawn show following refusal to reopen for the 1983 season after a major agreement on the theater not to show obscene or lewd films.
On June 1, 1970, Boxoffice wrote that W. W. Fincher of Chatsworth GA sold the Jet and the Montgomery to the Atlanta-based Wilby-Kincey circuit. The article added that the circuit flipped the Jet to R. M. Kennedy, Birmingham exhibitor.