Century's 110-Drive-In
288 Broadhollow Road,
Melville,
NY
11747
288 Broadhollow Road,
Melville,
NY
11747
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The 110 closed for the final time on July 20, 1976 with “Food Of The Gods” and “The Land That Time Forgot”. The theater’s flea market also closed that same day.
Can you confirm that the screen was 143x62 feet wide?
Grand opening ad:
Century’s Route 100 110 drive-in opening 24 Jul 1956, Tue Newsday (Suffolk Edition) (Melville, New York) Newspapers.com
The photo of the resurfacing of the screen seems to indicate it was slightly concurved, as were the screens at the Metro twin drive-in in Melbourne, Australia.
When Prudential opened the Bay Shore – Sunrise Drive In the capacity was also given as 2,500. Later they twinned it.
Perhaps one of the specific Drive In sites would have some insight (lol)re theater capacities.
Is this the most cars for a single screen drive-in?
Opened on 25/7/1956 with “The Eddy Duchin story”. and “Men of Sherwood Forest”. Closed in 1976.
Bayshore-Sunrise twinned; Westbury tripled.
I’m surprised that they did not twin or triple the DI in the later years.
ticotone- whoever wrote that article left out a zero. The capacity was 2,500 cars making it the largest on Long Island.
Added the article on the grand opening July 25, 1956 in the pictures section
Referring to my comment of May 5, 2009, uploaded a picture of the screen being resurfaced contained in the Newsday Long Island Places We Loved site.
The Marrying Kind has a drive in marquee that says Century Drive In NOT the 110 Drive In. I got excited for a moment.
July 24th 1956 grand opening ad uploaded here.
moviegoer! Thank you for that photo! It may be THE ONLY one that exists! A friend of mine on Facebook- who lives in Melville-was at that very show! Thank you again! It really means a lot to me.
I posted a photo of the marquee listing Run Appaloosa, Run and Snoopy Come Home as the features. The former was a 1966 film, but Snoopy Come Home was released in August 1972. So the photo is probably from August 1972. Probably within a few years of the end of this theater, judging by the prior comments.
But still no pylon
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That would be good since no pix of the theatre seem to be around.
I watched an old flick on TCM called “The Marrying Kind” starring Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray. They go the Route 110 Drive-In and there is actual footage of the huge marquee. If anyone had this film on DVD it would be great to take screen shots.
P.S. YES! I know it’s not a Johnny All Weather Drive in but I needed a kooky character on there.
Here is a link to my tribute art sign to the Route 110 Drive In Theater!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lanceart/5577355185/
Just sad as it always is to read about the old Drive-ins.
They never showed triple features-who wrote the opening preface ?
I’m not sure the flea markets were open AFTER the drive in closed, but I could be wrong
not listed in 1976