Park Drive-In
4421 Lawndale Drive,
Greensboro,
NC
27455
4421 Lawndale Drive,
Greensboro,
NC
27455
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The Park Drive-In opened its gates on July 7, 1950 with a one-day showing of Randolph Scott in “Albuquerque” with no extras. There is text confusion with reads “added attraction” at the bottom of the main attraction text, thinking that it may also opened with another unknown feature but could be an error.
The Park Drive-In closed for the final time on November 17, 1970 with George C. Scott in “Patton” and a cartoon show before the feature.
The site where the drive-in was now appears to be part of Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, so I don’t think anything will be built in it’s place.
The Oct. 7, 1950 issue of Boxoffice ran a full-page feature of the new Park Drive-In, tucked “deep in the pines of the Guilford Battleground Park near Greensboro”. Its surrounding forest meant that no fencing was needed. The article also featured the Park’s “concession talk-back system”. Patrons could order food by depressing “a small lever on the side of his speaker” and speaking with the switchboard operator in the concession building.
Barring the possibility of a typo, this ozoner’s name may have had an alternate spelling of:
Park Drive Inn Theatre
See the photos I’ve just posted of an old promotional matchbook (the green colored one) on which the theatre’s name is printed with the aforementioned spelling:–
Land is still there unoccupied. Completely grown up with trees and no remnants on the drive-in available. In an aerial photo from 1993, you can faintly mark out the classic drive-in layout, though it is still grown up. The theater was right off of Lawndale north of Orman Road. There’s a BP and nail place across the street.
This opened on July 7th, 1950. Grand opening ad posted in photo section.