Virginia’s Fork Union Drive-In, which first opened in 1953 and closed in 2011, plans to hold another grand opening on April 10. That’s according to a video (not the one posted above) from WCAV, Charlottesville’s News Leader.

By the way, I fibbed just a little. Although it opened as the Fork Union Drive-In, its rebirth will be as The Drive-In at Fork Union. (Grr. It’s taking a lot of concentration to not type “Fort Union,” the drive-in on the cover of my best-selling Drive-Ins of New Mexico.)

The opening and closing dates are from an article last year in the Fluvanna Review about the work to restore the drive-in. That article tells the story of the orignal owners’ daughters working with a local team, headed by Ron Unnerstall, to bring back the drive-in even better than its glory days. I’m looking forward to adding the Fork Union to the list of active drive-ins in a couple of months.