The Babylon (NY) Beacon columnist Sandi Brewster-walker looked back with a lengthy tribute to the drive-in theaters of Long Island. In particular, the article featured the Johnny All Weather Drive-In Theatre that opened in 1957 in Copiague. It was a rare (probably “only” at the time) drive-in with an adjacent indoor theater where the same movie would…
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Without film, Hi-Way faces tough choices
The Daily Freeman of Hudson Valley NY ran a story that I expect to see duplicated in dozens of other towns. Now that the Hollywood studios have stopped supplying film prints of their movies, the Hi-Way of Coxsackie has to decide what it’s going to do about the coming drive-in season. According to the Daily…
Add your message to a drive-in marquee
Here’s a silly bit of fun. RedKid.net offers a Drive-In Movie Marquee Generator, where you can add any three lines of text and watch them added to the old marquee of the Buffalo Drive-In (Cheektowaga NY). You can also find the base photo on this Flickr page. The New York Times covered the sad final days…
Two NY drive-ins face uncertain off-season
The Daily Mail of Hudson NY recently ran a lengthy, thoughtful article profiling its two nearby drive-in theaters. The Hi-Way (Coxsackie) and Greenville (Greenville) were candidates in Honda’s Project Drive-In, and they were among the over 100 drive-ins that failed to win a free digital projector. Both owners sound ambivalently positive about their prospects for reopening next…
“Empire Drive-In” recycles old cars for a good cause
Yes, this probably qualifies as a thing that is not a drive-in. But I’ve read in several places about the Empire Drive-In, a temporary setup at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, and we’ve got a pretty good video to go with it. See what you think…
One-car crash damages Transit marquee
See what happens when you book Gremlins! According to a very brief story in The Buffalo (NY) News, a car drove into a utility pole next to the marquee for the Transit Drive-In in nearby South Lockport, burst into flames and severely damaged the marquee. The News said that no one was injured and the…
Project Drive-In roundup 4: The list that wouldn’t die
In the third installment of our roundup of candidates for Honda’s Project Drive-In, I predicted that Honda would choose more than five lucky recipients of digital projectors. What I really didn’t anticipate was that Honda would reopen voting for the second set of winners. With another round of voting comes another round of candidates that…