It’s Day 116 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. It took a little almost three hours to drive down from Fort Collins through the Denver area, across the continental divide in the Eisenhower Tunnel, then on to the Blue Starlite Mini Urban Drive In in Minturn CO. Minturn, in the Vail Valley, is a pretty small town, but its Little Beach Park got lit up…
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Apr. 25: Holiday Twin Drive In Theatre, Fort Collins CO
It’s Day 115 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. It took a little over an hour to drive from Commerce City CO to the Holiday Twin Drive In Theatre in Fort Collins. Cinema Treasures says that the Holiday Twin started life in 1968 as the single-screen Starlight, then added a second screen in 1976. According to a wonderful, long article in the Fort Collins…
Apr. 24: 88 Drive In Theatre, Commerce City CO
It’s Day 114 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. It took just 10 minutes to drive up I-76 from the Denver Mart Drive In to the 88 Drive-In in neighboring Commerce City CO. According to a story in The Denver Post, the 88 was built in 1972 but was showing adult films when it was purchased in 1976 by Bill and Margaret Holshue…
Apr. 23: Denver Mart Drive In, Denver CO
It’s Day 113 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. It took another 2 1/2 hours of mostly US 285 mountain driving, from Buena Vista through the actual South Park (a region, not a town) up to Denver, home of the Denver Mart Drive In. The Denver Mart Drive-In is one of the very latest, opened in May 2015. That first season,…
Apr. 22: Comanche Drive In Theatre, Buena Vista CO
It’s Day 112 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. It took 2 1/2 hours of mostly mountain driving (good thing I’m used to it by now) to journey from Pueblo to the Comanche Drive In Theatre just west of Buena Vista CO. I often think of the Comanche as a “stealth” drive-in. The Comanche was built in 1966 by John and Pearl Groy,…
Apr. 21: Mesa Drive-In, Pueblo CO
It’s Day 111 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. It was a long drive, about 4 1/2 hours, all along US 50 from the South Drive-In Theatre in Dodge City KS to the Mesa Drive-In in Pueblo CO. The Mesa opened as a single-screen drive-in in 1951. Chuck and Marianne James bought it in 1994, then added two screens to celebrate its 50th year. When the…
Feb. 25: Star Drive In Theatre, Monte Vista CO
It’s Day 56 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. The drive across the Continental Divide, from Montrose to Monte Vista CO, was cold and took about three hours, but at least it was dry. I found myself at a place I’ve visited several times over the last few decades, the Star Drive In Theatre. The Star opened around 1955 on the west side…