Blue Ridge Drive-in

50sSNIPES on May 22, 2023 at 4:46 pm

The Mackes operated the Blue Ridge Drive-In throughout the theater’s entire history and for the longest time until they both closed the theater for the final time at the end of the 1992 season after 40 years of first-run films and family entertainment in the Saylorsburg/Brodheadsville area.

The screen continued to partially stand for the next couple of years but was in pretty rough shape and beaten condition, as some of the remaining blocks at one of the sides of the 1955-installed CinemaScope screen were either removed for unknown reasons or partially destroyed, as well as some missing blocks from the main screen. The screen was then later removed in the mid-1990s possibly due to its condition.

Nearly five years later, Raymond Mackes passed away at 83 on July 16, 1997 in their Pleasant Valley home. The Blue Ridge Drive-In’s co-owner is LeRoy R. Mackes of Sciota (Unknown date 1916 in Sciota–September 10, 2003 in East Stroudsburg), who also both co-owned and operated the theater from the start until the end.

NYozoner on December 31, 2016 at 5:28 pm

648 Old State Route 115
Saylorsburg, PA 18353

It does not map correctly unless you use “Old State Route 115.”

dallasmovietheaters on August 19, 2015 at 3:41 am

Though the family states that they opened in 1953, the Blue Ridge Drive-In Theatre launched July 4, 1952. Then July 4, 1976, Stanley Mackes and family which had run the drive-in from their land added the Blue Ridge Flea Market. The Flea Market would last for decades and became an even more phenomenal success than the drive-in theater which eventually closed.