Sharon Drive-In
977 SC-72,
Abbeville,
SC
29620
977 SC-72,
Abbeville,
SC
29620
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Abbeville is noted for its famed Opera House. This small Western South Carolina town also had the Sharon Drive-In, located in the Calhoun Falls district. It was like most small-town drive-in’s, where everyone knew the staff and enjoyed the weekend movies.
Opened on September 2, 1950 with Spade Cooley in “Everybody’s Dancin'”, the Sharon Drive-In parked 200 cars, about right for a town that size. It was owned by William Broadwell, Jr. It was closed around 1955.
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Is it in your book?
tisloews, sorry, nope.
O.K. Bob Hope you had a nice Memorial Day.
Check out this website has picture of Sharon Drive In with screen and snack bar. http://users.ece.gatech.edu/mleach/abbeville/oldschool/index.html
This is a shortcut to the picture itself http://users.ece.gatech.edu/mleach/abbeville/oldschool/Sharon_Drive_In.jpg
Here is the correct address please add:
SC-72 & Co Rd S-1-378, Abbeville, SC 29620
This opened softly on September 2, 1950 with “Everybody’s Dancing” (unknown if extras added), and had its grand opening two days later on September 4, 1950 with “Baron Of Arizona” (also unknown if extras added). It was already gone before the early-1980s.
A closer address is 977 SC-72, Abbeville, SC.
Google Maps has updated their addresses and this puts it on a house that sits on the west side of the property.
A 1954 aerial shows the drive-in already demolished, so it may not have lasted a year.
Today, most of the property is overgrown with the aforementioned house on the west side. There is no trace of the drive-in remaining.
https://tinyurl.com/2r4hfauy
Newspaper archives from the Index-Journal of Greenwood confirmed that the Sharon Drive-In was still open in 1955, meaning that the aerial year could be a human error. However, I can confirm that it may’ve not last long either, meaning that it may’ve closed later in the mid-1950s.
50sSNIPES - All aerial photographs are time and date stamped when they are taken. That information is on the edge of the photos when printed, so the chances of human error are about the same as advertisements for an already closed drive-in. As I’ve yet to find an aerial photo that was not from the year as stated.
Having said that, the photo itself is not the greatest. I do see a smudge which might be the projection booth and perhaps the screen is simply not visible amid the clutter where it should be located.
So, perhaps it wasn’t demolished or perhaps it was pretty second-rate in terms of booth & screen.