Miami Drive-In

705 NW 81st Street,
Miami, FL 33150

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rivest266
rivest266 on January 25, 2020 at 8:21 pm

Grand opening ad reposted with a better quality version.

Denny Pine
Denny Pine on August 31, 2018 at 1:54 pm

Final night of operation was April 5, 1979 with “The Evictors” and “Monkey Hustle”

DavidZornig
DavidZornig on May 3, 2015 at 10:16 pm

Newspaper print ad added from the Miami Daily News, July 2, 1950.

tzwicky
tzwicky on May 22, 2013 at 3:52 am

A mixed-use, Miami-Dade County complex is just finishing up construction on the site of the Miami Drive-In. There’s a branch library, and other outposts of county government open for use. I saw films here in 1972, during my 12th school year, and a classmate worked there (which is the only reason I can recall the date). I think I saw a Godzilla film at this theatre.

rivest266
rivest266 on October 16, 2011 at 3:51 pm

This opened on February 18th, 1938. I uploaded the grand opening ad and an reprocessed USGS aerial from 1969 here.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on July 9, 2011 at 1:25 pm

I have it parking 1000 cars not 600 mentioned above.{Miami Drive-in Theatres}.

JFlo
JFlo on May 8, 2011 at 2:09 am

My research has found that this was Florida’s first drive-in theatre.
It would be interesting to know how this location is used present day.

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on July 17, 2010 at 1:54 am

Thanks Al. E.M. Loew, Elias M.Loew 1898-1984 from Austria once owned 70 hardtop theatres and 17 drive-ins, motels, hotels, and a racetrack.One of the drive-in Motels was the 52 room Gulfstream Drive-in which has its own listing on C.T.the motel was built on both side of the drive-in screen.

Al Alvarez
Al Alvarez on July 15, 2010 at 4:49 pm

The Miami Drive-In opened in 1938 and was advertised as the largest drive-in in the country. It closed in 1977.