Hillcrest Drive-In

1344 Heber Springs Road S,
Heber Springs, AR 72543

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Kenmore
Kenmore on November 24, 2023 at 10:35 pm

The address is 1344 Heber Spring Rd, Heber Springs, AR. (no “S”). That will place it right on the site.

The drive-in was intact as least until 1985, although it appears to be closed.

WT Transportation currently sits on the property. It retains the general outline of the drive-in and the entrance/exit road. But that is all which remains.

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MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on March 5, 2022 at 12:57 pm

Boxoffice, June 19, 1967: “Hillcrest Drive-In, Heber Springs, Ark., operated by J. O. Smith, opened for full-time operation Friday (16).”

An article about Cinema Radio sound conversions in the March 17, 1975 issue of Boxoffice said that Altec Service Corp. had upgraded “the 400-car Hillcrest Drive-In, Heber Springs, Ark., (Victor Weber)”.

The 1972 Motion Picture Almanac listed the Hillcrest with a capacity of 270 cars. After the MPA rebooted its drive-in list in 1977, it no longer included the Hillcrest; without other evidence, I would guess that the drive-in closed after the 1975 or 1976 season.