City Drive-In
3853 Cleveland Avenue,
Fort Myers,
FL
33901
3853 Cleveland Avenue,
Fort Myers,
FL
33901
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Approx. address for this drive-in was 3853 Cleveland Avenue. Now KMart.
U.S. 41 & Winkler Ave is the same as 3920 Cleveland Ave, Fort Myers, FL 33901.
I try to use intersections when practical, since road numbers can sometimes throw of the mapping features on certain mapping websites or programs.
Cleveland Ave at McGregor Blvd takes me to the center of downtown Fort Myers, and I did not see a footprint anywhere near there.
4700 Cleveland Ave, Fort Myers, FL 33907 puts my Google Earth on S. Cleveland Ave near N Airport Rd, near the Fort Myers Airport.
This is what I have documented for Fort Myers, there are four addresses which have been verified as drive-ins through aerial photos:
City Drive-In – U.S. 41 & Winkler Ave, Fort Myers
Northside Drive-In – 2521 N Tamiami Trail, North Fort Myers
Southside (AKA Starlite) Drive-In – 13972 S Tamiami Trail, Fort Myers
Twilight Drive-In – 3901 Dr Martin Luther King Blvd, Fort Myers
The Northside Drive-In is the only one visible using Google Earth imagery, to the best of my knowledge.
There may have been a fifth drive-in, Lincoln Drive-In, which I am still researching.
Also, why are you calling me Brad? My name is Rick.
@Chuck: If you are referring to the area on the east side on Cleveland near N Airport Rd, I do not see a footprint there. It looks like the runway used to extend all the way to Cleveland Ave, and was shortened. The leftover property was graded off, but I do not see any remains for a drive-in there in current aerials, or the aerials I reviewed from 1958 and 1960.
U.S. 41 & Winkler Ave, Fort Myers, FL 33901
The above address will map accurately to the location of the drive-in. The address in the heading is off by about 1 mile to the south.
Here is a 1958 aerial photo of the drive-in, courtesy of Earth Explorer and USGS.