Pine Drive-In
139 Eastport Road,
Jacksonville,
FL
32218
139 Eastport Road,
Jacksonville,
FL
32218
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The Pinecrest Drive-In once became local headlines. During the overnight hours of July 21, 1970, a 22-year-old man named Michael Chris Howell was robbed by two other men while trying to head back to his vehicle, who tried to get away but got stabbed during the struggle. The suspects took his wallet but dropped it after finding no money. He was taken to a nearby hospital in stable condition but survived. The stabbing happened during the double-feature of Burt Lancaster’s “The Scalphunters” and John Wayne’s “The Searchers”.
Its name was shortened to just “Pine Drive-In” in 1973, before it was tripled in 1977. It was last known as Pine Triple Drive-In before closing as a normal drive-in (despite running mostly exploitations with only a handful of mainstreamers from here and there) on September 24, 1982 for remodeling, but unfortunately, that took it completely off the table. It reopened as an adult drive-in on October 1, 1982, and continued operating until closing for good on August 2, 1983.
This opened as the Pinecrest Drive-In on December 11th, 1952. Grand opening ad posted.
Drive-in was still intact in a 1984 aerial, but gone by 1994.
Yep, it opened as a single-screener as early as the 1950s.
Now Fiber International LLC an exporter. Please update.
BTW all the pine trees and the entrance roads are still there…
As mentioned above, sometime between 1970 and 1980 it was expanded to 3 screens.
Looking at an aerial from 1980 it looks like it was a triple screen theater.