Victory Drive-In

Victory Drive & Leslie Drive,
Columbus, GA 31903

Closed
1 screen
300 cars

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on December 31, 2024 at 8:56 am

The Victory Drive-In was originally supposed to be a Georgia Theatre Company drive-in due to the fact that a September 1951 article shows that they were building the 554-car Victory Drive-In on that same exact spot. It was originally planned to be open by Thanksgiving 1951 but that was scrapped for unknown reasons.

The Victory opened its gates by H.P. Rhodes on March 28, 1952 with “Best Of The Badmen” along with three cartoons that were listed in a weird order: an unnamed Bugs Bunny cartoon, the Barney Bear cartoon “Goggle Fishing Bear”, and another cartoon simply named “Three Bears” (possibly either another Bugs Bunny cartoon entitled “Bugs Bunny And The Three Bears” or the Terrytoons cartoon “The Three Bears”, one or the other).

The Victory Drive-In last operated as an adult drive-in from 1972 until closing in 1976.

rivest266
rivest266 on July 4, 2018 at 8:58 pm

This opened on March 28th, 1952 and closed in 1976. Adult movies from 1972 until it closed.

Adamthemoviefan
Adamthemoviefan on March 4, 2015 at 4:24 pm

It’s used as a flea market now you can tell it used to me a theatre but the screen is gone

NYozoner
NYozoner on February 2, 2011 at 3:15 pm

Victory Dr & Leslie Dr, Columbus, GA 31903

The above address will map accurately to the location of the drive-in, which is visible on Google Earth using historic aerial imagery.

Here is a 1968 aerial photo of the drive-in, courtesy of Earth Explorer and USGS.

Mike Rogers
Mike Rogers on June 16, 2010 at 10:32 am

Any extra info would be great.