Dartmouth Drive-In
506 State Road,
Dartmouth,
MA
02747
506 State Road,
Dartmouth,
MA
02747
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Actually, you’re wrong. The Dartmouth Drive-In closed on August 20, 1985 with “Silverado” and “Just One Of The Guys”.
Last season: 1983.
The Walmart opened at the site on August 31, 1994, and expanded to Supercenter on October 20, 2013.
Grand opening ad posted.
The Aug. 27, 1941 issue of The Exhibitor reported that Nelson Jacobs “has just completed the new Drive-In for Dartmouth Drive-In Theatres, Inc., in Dartmouth. This up-to-the-minute autery parks 750 cars, and is operated by William Purcell. Opening was to be on Aug. 22. A unique layout of the new Drive-In is the fan-design, with aisles spreading out in a cone, utilizing the architecture of the surrounding land.”
The Sept. 10, 1941 issue mentioned “New Drive-In Theatre operated by the Dartmouth Drive-In Theatre, Inc., has especially developed sound equipment installed by RCA Photophone.”
The Theatre Historical Society on-line archive has the MGM Theatre Report for the Dartmouth Auto Theatre; it’s Card # 603. But no one filled the report out so there is no information, only an undated photo. Most of the undated photos in these reports were taken between 1945 and 1950.