Auburn Drive-In
48 Poland Spring Road,
Auburn,
ME
04210
48 Poland Spring Road,
Auburn,
ME
04210
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Previously operated by: Daytz Theatre Enterprises Corp., Lockwood & Gordon Enterprises, SBC Theatres
Previous Names: Danville Drive-In
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Opened July 7, 1949 as the Danville Drive-In with Betty Hutton in “The Perils of Pauline” & The Bowery Boys in “Hard Boiled Mahoney”. Name was changed to Auburn Drive-In a year later. By 1957 it was operated by Daytz Theatre Enterprises Corp. In June 1969 it was taken over by SBC Theatres. Closed on July 24, 1988 with Chevy Chase in “Funny Farm” & Danny DeVito in “Throw Mama from the Train”. It reopened for the 1989 season, then closed permanently.
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My old, fallible reference books point to the renaming from the Danville to the Auburn in the late 50s / early 60s.
Theatre Catalog data, as listed as the Danville:
1949-50: Collin and Wood, 550.
1952: Lockwood and Gordon Ent., 450.
1955-56: Lockwood and Gordon Ent., and Daytz Theatre Ent., 450.
(I)MPA data:
1953-59: Danville, 450, Daytz Theatre Ent.
1963: Aubury (sic), 450, Daytz Theatre Ent.
1969-76: Auburn, 475.
1982: 300, SBC Mgt. Corp.
1984-88: SBC Mgt. Corp.
Opened July 2nd, 1949 as Danville Drive-In and closed at the end of the season.
Danville Drive-In opening 02 Jul 1949, Sat Sun-Journal (Lewiston, Maine) Newspapers.com
It reopened as Auburn Drive-In on June 21st, 1950. Ads posted.
Last season: 1989.
A better address is 48 Poland Spring Rd, Auburn, ME.
Google Maps has updated their addresses. This lines up with the entrance of the drive-in.
Today, the property has three residential homes with a large open portion covered by trees. There is no trace of the drive-in remaining.
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Last operated by Raymond Cailler, who also operated a handful of movie theaters in Maine.
Taken over by SBC Theatres in June 1969.