East Park Drive-In

3709 E. 10th Street,
Sioux Falls, SD 57103

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MichaelKilgore on January 12, 2025 at 4:04 am

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."

50sSNIPES on July 24, 2024 at 1:10 am

The Kmart closed in December 2016, it is now a Runnings.

davidcoppock on December 16, 2020 at 11:31 am

The site is now K-Mart.

davidcoppock on November 5, 2018 at 4:18 pm

Opened with “Raffles”,

Denny Pine on November 5, 2018 at 3:26 pm

Final night of operation was September 4, 1978 with “Grand Theft Auto” and “Airport ‘77”.

MichaelKilgore on September 25, 2018 at 5:15 pm

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.

rivest266 on December 11, 2016 at 1:12 pm

This opened on September 3rd, 1948. Grand opening ad in the photo section.

Kenmore on March 4, 2015 at 11:05 pm

The drive-in was located at 3709 E. 10th (Google) and is now a K-Mart. https://goo.gl/maps/vAwBl