Crescent Drive-In
4005 N. Main Street,
High Point,
NC
27265
4005 N. Main Street,
High Point,
NC
27265
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Previous Names: Grubb's Drive-In, Moon-Glo Drive-In
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First reported in the High Point Enterprise, March 20, 1949, C.W. Grubb, Virginia Grubb and Carl C. Wilson were due to open Grubb’s Drive-In on the Winston Salem Highway in the next three to four weeks. According to an Enterprise AD it opened about June 1949 and was later advertised as Grubb’s Moon-Glo and then just Moon-Glo.
The Moon-Glo’s last AD appeared in the High Point Enterprise on May 6, 1953, playing for adults only, “Strip Strip Hooray”. ‘Gals and Gags, Legs and Laffs’. It was equipped with a new wide screen and reopened renamed Crescent Drive-In on November 12, 1954 with Richard Widmark in “Hell and High Water”. It was closed on June 12, 1961 with Gianna Maria Canale in “The Sword and the Cross” & Nat Pendleton in “Top Sargeant Mulligan”.
The Enterprise reported in 2015 that after Mr. Grubb closed the drive-in, he took his equipment and opened the Crescent Drive-In in Thomasville.
It was said AAA Self Storage, currently on site, has an aerial photo of the Moon-Glo on display.
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Gone in the early-1960s.
The reboot ad with widescreen projection on November 12, 1954 as the grand opening of the Crescent Drive-In is in photos with “Hell and High Water” playing on the new tower.
Closed on June 12, 1961 with “The Sword And The Cross” and “Top Sargent Mulligan”. This was followed by a robbery that happened after closure, where an unidentified individual broke through a window and stole boxes of candy and packs of cigarettes.