According to Oregon Live, a wind storm last week knocked down part of a building at Newburg OR’s 99W Drive-in. The good news, if you can call it that, is that the building was an indoor theater that had been closed for 10 years.
The drive-in launched a GoFundMe page with the hope of raising money to demolish and clean up the damaged structure, which is connected to the drive-in’s concession stand. As of the article’s publication, it had raised about $3600.
This story’s a bit of an edge case, a little weird. The town of Queen Creek AZ, a bit southeast of Phoenix, is holding a drive-in theater on Dec. 20, as reported by the Queen Creek Independent. The venue is the town’s Frontier Family Park, which is so new that it’s a vacant lot on Google Maps.
The free movie is “Elf,” so that’s not the weird part. The event is sponsored by the mayor’s Teen Advisory Committee, and it’s open only to teenagers – folks 13-19 years of age. There’s lawn seating, but there are also a few sports to park and view the movie, so at least it qualifies as a pop-up drive-in. With a strict age limit.
The Copperas Cove Leader Press reported that a local Realtors group owner has refurbished the old Joy Drive-In screen, which now faces the Joy RV Park. It looks like they hold Friday and Saturday movie nights for the park residents.
But the article said that owner Jodie Nobles is also planning to add “about 30” spaces for cars so the drive-in can be a true, y’know, drive-in. (That’s more like it!) She hopes to get it all running by January 2026.