Circle Drive-In

305 Robbins Street,
Greensboro, NC 27406

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on September 15, 2024 at 10:26 pm

The Circle Drive-In opened its gates on March 4, 1970 with Don Knotts in “The Shakiest Gun In The West” and Phyllis Diller in “Did You Hear The One About The Traveling Saleslady?”

  • On December 23, 1970, manager Frank Farrar was working at the Circle Drive-In when two negro teenaged men stopped by. One of which got out of his car, reached inside the ticket booth, placed his arm around Farrar’s neck, and held a hawk-bill knife over his head. He sustained several minor cuts on the stomach, hands, and arms, and was forced to face behind the brick wall. The negro stole $70 in cash and ran off. Earlier in the scene, taxi driver John W. Harris said that a man who he picked up at the bus station on Friendly Avenue placed a gun at his head. Harris said the man asked to go to the store on Patterson Avenue. As they neared the store, the man placed a pistol to his head and ordered him to continue driving. The driver said when he stopped at a red light at the intersection of Patterson Avenue and Holden Road, he took off from the car and ran.

The Circle Drive-In continued to screen regular movies in the late-1970s, but flipped to adult films by the early-1980s.

oldgreensboro
oldgreensboro on December 29, 2013 at 8:12 pm

Mrs Lashley was always dressed up and Mr Lashley always wore a Bow-Tie. Two movies cartoons all for $.50 cents. later became a XX Theater. One time Mr Lashley came into Piedmont Wholesale after it had been sold and they had started to show XX… He said “Oh son, if I had any idea they were going to do that, I would have never sold it”.

rivest266
rivest266 on November 10, 2013 at 12:22 pm

This opened on March 4th, 1970-1983.

Mmandarano
Mmandarano on September 21, 2013 at 10:44 pm

From an article in the Greensboro News and Record, this was the last standing drive-in in the Greater Greensboro area.