Buffalo Drive-In

3085 Harlem Road,
Cheektowaga, NY 14225

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Previous Names: Drive-In

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The Drive-In opened on August 1, 1941 with Don Ameche in “Down Argentine Way”. It is listed in 1955 as being on Harlem Road at Genesee Street, in Cheektowaga, to the east of Buffalo. At that time as a single screen it had a capacity for 900 cars.

It was rebuilt and reopened on July 18, 1974. It had a capacity for 1,200 cars in its 3-screens and was open April to September. The Buffalo Drive-In was closed on September 1, 2007.

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Mike Rogers on January 28, 2011 at 5:16 pm

I was serching in my 1956 Motion Picture Almanac and NO drive-ins are listed in Buffalo.They must have had a small city limits and all the Drive-ins were in nearby towns?

LouB on March 26, 2012 at 6:53 pm

This theatre was actually in Cheektowaga. There is a picture of the marquee in the snack bar of the medical complex, which occupies the site of the former drive-in.

Drive-In 54 on March 26, 2012 at 7:42 pm

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Driveintheatre2001 on March 26, 2012 at 9:39 pm

Looks like, by aerial view, the snack bar was saved! But there is still quite a bit of land not being used by the new business' there. The back 2 lots of the drive in are still there. Possibly could have still had at least 1, possibly 2 screens for the area to have their drive in theatre. Seen here. <— Google Maps… Oh well. Progress?

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tsar on July 27, 2013 at 10:52 pm

Took my 11 year old daughter for the final night. Saw one of the Die Hard films. Very bittersweet. Now it’s just the Transit Drive-In. I know Sunset in Middleport and the Silverlake are still around but they are a little far out for city residents.

Drive-In 54 on July 28, 2013 at 5:01 am

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davidcoppock on October 14, 2018 at 1:53 am

Opened on 1/8/1941. Rebuilt and reopened on 18/7/1974. Snack bar is now used as a maintenance building. All other buildings have been demolished.

davidcoppock on October 1, 2020 at 7:01 am

Opened on 1/8/1941 with “Down Argentine way”. Reopened as a 3 screen drive-in on 18/7/1974 on screen 1 with “The sound of music” and a Disney docomentry short “People and places(no. 3 Switzerland)” and on screen 2 with “Three Musketeers” and “The heartbreak kid” and on screen 3 with “The great Gatsby” and “Paper moon”.