Florence Drive-In

6809 Dixie Highway,
Florence, KY 41042

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DavidZornig
DavidZornig on June 27, 2024 at 9:29 am

Thank you. Your updates help the Admins fix the Overviews with ownership changes. I just chimed in so that the opening date gets reviewed by them before making changes if needed. In this case I’d say it does not. Thank you for all your posts.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on June 27, 2024 at 9:11 am

Sorry for any misunderstanding, everybody. When I post a quote, it’s just a quote. In this case, the main reason was to show the change of ownership.

When there’s no primary evidence of an opening date, a later quote can provide some indication. But when the opening date has already been nailed down pretty well (such as with the Florence), I sometimes leave it in to show the fallibility of memory, and why we should treat such decades-later statements with a grain of salt.

kennerado
kennerado on June 26, 2024 at 9:21 pm

Appears to be housing, might be a retirement estate.

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on June 26, 2024 at 1:47 am

Is there anything on this site now?

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on June 25, 2024 at 8:39 pm

Although the link I posted in 2022 has the May 22, 1947 date listed below the article and not on it, and “A Night in Casablanca” was released May 10, 1946, May 22, 1947 is confirmed as a Thursday as the article states. I tend to believe the Boone County Register. There was a preview that Wednesday night. We might have to search other local newspapers for those dates to confirm 1947 over 1946. But my guess is someone at Boxoffice at the time looked up what year that film was released, and went with it as the opening year.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on June 25, 2024 at 5:37 pm

Boxoffice, Aug. 24, 1970: “Richard P. Ernst Realty Co., owner of the Dixie Drive-In and the Florence Drive-In, has announced that it will sell the two ozoners to Redstone Theatres of Boston. Both drive-ins were opened in 1946.”

rivest266
rivest266 on June 14, 2022 at 3:46 pm

Grand opening ad posed.

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on February 17, 2022 at 6:23 pm

Opened Thursday May 22,1947 with “A Night in Casablanca” starring the Marx Brothers. Capacity was 800 cars. Boone County Recorder news clipping in link below, and added to gallery, courtesy Boone County Local History Department.

https://nkyviews.com/boone/text/drive-in.html?fbclid=IwAR0suTeYpYlU0ZcOx2yrjBNcNJVOZb05jm8rBgDRfg1EwW79QWREXpT3e3s

JerrySTL
JerrySTL on March 30, 2016 at 10:19 am

I worked there and a few times at the Dixie Gardens Drive-In in 1970-1971. They were owned by the same company. It was a lot of fun. Unfortunately I didn’t take any photos of either place.

triassic4
triassic4 on July 31, 2012 at 5:18 am

Having been born and living in South Ft Mitchell, KY (from 1949-1956), I can vividly recall many trips with my family to the beautiful ‘Florence Drive-In! I have been searching the web for ANY images of this theater, but have found absolutely NOTHING of importance. PLEASE, if knows of, or has any old photos to share … I am sure that the original resident fans and other drive-in theater enthusiasts nationwide would LOVE enjoying and sharing those images. These photographs would be of great historical reference. Please consider ~ Thanks!

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on June 8, 2010 at 1:35 pm

Thanks again Mike.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on June 7, 2010 at 5:09 pm

I have it parking 625 cars and being owned in 1956 by Tom Hill.