Ellen Drive-In
700 E. Mountain View Avenue,
Ellensburg,
WA
98926
700 E. Mountain View Avenue,
Ellensburg,
WA
98926
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Boxoffice, Aparil 18, 1953: “ELLENBURG, WASH. - Ed Metzgar of Moscow, Ida., recently announced that only one of the two drive-ins on which construction had been started a day apart, would be built. He and his partner Andy Walyer of Selah have abandoned plans to erect a drive-in on the Vantage highway, three miles east. His statement said that having assured that the Allen Amusement Co. definitely is going to construct a drive-in just south of the city, he and Walyer had reconsidered. The Allen Amusement Co. is affiliated with the Midstate Amusement Corp. Another drive-in is in prospect for this area. Jim and Clarence Farrell of the Liberty Theatre here purchased in 1951 part of the Old Dominion farm on the Kittitas cutoff and have obtained architect’s plans for construction of a 500-car installation.”
Opened with “Rawhide” and “Call Me Mister” with no extra short subjects.
Opened June 26, 1953.
Now condos. Approx. address for this drive-in was 700 East Mountain View Avenue.
Every year on the 4th of July, the town fireworks took place at the Ellen. Overflow cars lined up on Mtn View St. to watch the show.
It was owned by Mid State Theatres in the late Fifties.“ANYONE CAN PLAY” and “SKIDOO” are playing on April 1 1970.On Tuesdays Carloads for 1.75. For awhile in the very early seventies it went by the name ELLEN CINEMA.