Family Drive-In
4300 N. Broadway,
Knoxville,
TN
37917
4300 N. Broadway,
Knoxville,
TN
37917
1 person
favorited this theater
Showing 8 comments
Fotomac, The double feature playing on July 15, 1977 was “Outlaw Blues” and “Freebie and the Bean”
Can anyone remember what the feature was for the week of 15 July, when Star Wars came to town?
Opened with 2 colour cartoons(“Slap happy lion”, and “Clown of the jungle”) and “Blue grass of Kentucky”. Closed with “Don’t go in the basement” and “Mad house”.
The last movies were shown on November 2, 1980. The last newspaper ad is posted in the photo section.
The Family Drive-In opened August 23, 1950. I have posted the opening newspaper add in the photo section.
THE SUNSET DRIVE-IN ON CLINTON HIGHWAY WAS BY FOR THE LARGEST IN KNOXVILLE – IT WAS ADVERTISED AS LARGEST IN THE WORLD – 1500 SPEAKERS
Now showing Oct 20 1964 “THE CHALK GARDEN” and “THE SECRET PASSION”
this was my ‘make-out’ place in the early 70’s when I was in high school. By then it was showing 2nd rate b-movies like ‘The Velvet Vampire’ which was OK because we never watched the movie anyway.