Lakeview Drive-In
5170 Beaver Dam Road,
Leitchfield,
KY
42754
5170 Beaver Dam Road,
Leitchfield,
KY
42754
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Previous Names: Allen's Drive-In
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The Allen’s Drive-In was opened in the late-1950’s or early-1960’s. It parked 150 cars. In the mid-1970’s it was renamed Lakeview Drive-In. The drive-in closed in 1988. The drive-in site is now home to Carvin Ray’s Live Music.
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5170 Beaver Dam Rd
Leitchfield, KY 42754.
This is the correct address for this Drive-in. The above address is incorrect. Most ramps are still visible. There is a building on the property where the concession stand stood.
Please update.
Either opened in the late-1950s or early-1960s.
A 1967 aerial photo showed a drive-in at the future Lakeview site. It appears that this drive-in opened as Allen’s, the name of the first Leitchfield drive-in to appear in the Motion Picture Almanac’s annual list, debuting in the 1971 edition. It didn’t change to Lakeview until the MPA’s reboot in 1977.
Boxoffice, May 28, 1973: “Tri-State is servicing the Allen’s Drive-In, Leitchfield, Ky.”
Boxoffice, July 11, 1977: “Ralph McCoy’s Lakeview Drive-In, Leitchfield, … screen was caught in a sudden gust of wind during some violent weather that covered the state Thursday, June 30 … a small portion of the structure still was standing”
The MPA included the Lakeview through its final drive-in list in 1988.