East Park Drive-In
3709 E. 10th Street,
Sioux Falls,
SD
57103
3709 E. 10th Street,
Sioux Falls,
SD
57103
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The East Park Drive-In was listed as opened September 3, 1948 with David Niven in “Raffles”. It was operated by Midco Theatres. The drive-in had a capacity of 423 cars and was closed in 1978.
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The drive-in was located at 3709 E. 10th (Google) and is now a K-Mart. https://goo.gl/maps/vAwBl
This opened on September 3rd, 1948. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
An article which mentioned that the nearby Star-Lite added a second screen in 1979 said in passing that the East Park closed in 1978.
Final night of operation was September 4, 1978 with “Grand Theft Auto” and “Airport ‘77”.
Opened with “Raffles”,
The site is now K-Mart.
The Kmart closed in December 2016, it is now a Runnings.
Boxoffice, Oct. 6, 1951: “Richard E. Nohlgren and Harold Hanson who designed and built the first drive-in theatre in the Dakotas, at Sioux Falls, back in 1948, have now designed a mobile refreshment unit to "go where the people are.” Called the Eskimo-Kreme Kar, it is a self-contained unit built on a special automotive chassis which includes full 230 volt power necessary to operate the equipment … the car can be operated during the day on neighborhood routes and parked near the rear ramps of the drive-in theatre at night."