The Wheel-In Motor Movie (what a great name!), south of Port Townsend WA, reopened for its 60th season this week, as documented in the Peninsula Daily News. The Wheel-In is owned by Rick Wiley, and he says that he’s “excited” about converting to digital projection next year. But even with … Continue reading
Category Archives: Washington
Video of the Auto Vue, open for its final season
Yes, we covered the upcoming closing of the Auto Vue (Colville WA) months ago, and no, we don’t enjoy dwelling on bad news. But we do love our embedded video, and this offering is worthy. KXLY, Spokane’s news leader, presented a lovely video postcard of the Auto Vue and its … Continue reading
Here’s some video of the Skyline Drive-In
I know I ran a note just a few weeks ago about the Skyline Drive-In of Shelton WA, but I saw that KING, Seattle’s news leader, ran a story about its progress raising money to finance the conversion to digital projection. There’s not a whole lot new about the story … Continue reading
Valley 6, Wilmington now permanently closed
While it’s great fun to celebrate the birth of a new drive-in, we also need to make mention of drive-ins that pass away. Sometimes they close to great fanfare, but more often they just decline to reopen in the spring. Here are two more of those stories. From the Auburn … Continue reading
Skyline Theater also turns to Kickstarter
The Skyline Drive-In Theater (aha! someone else who spells it -ter) in Shelton WA is the latest drive-in to turn to Kickstarter to raise funds for its conversion to digital projection. As that page describes it: “Small theaters all over the country are left to fight over the few 35mm … Continue reading
Another Washington drive-in has switched to digital
Although it’s sad that we’ll lose the Auto-Vue, there’s some good news from the other side of the state of Washington. The Blue Fox Drive-In (Oak Harbor WA) has already switched to digital projection and has reopened for its 2013 season. The Whidbey News-Times ran a nice article about the … Continue reading
Auto-Vue announces it’s closing this fall
The owner of the Auto-Vue Drive-In in Colville WA told the Spokane Spokesman that 2013 will be its final season. Because of the digital projection conversion it would require to continue, the Auto-Vue will close for good after Labor Day weekend. Steve Wisner said the Auto-Vue is still profitable, but … Continue reading