A notorious kidnapping and murder of the ticket taker occurred at the Valley Drive-in in 1973. You can read all about it here:https://laurajames.typepad.com/clews/2007/05/the_valley_driv.html
The description is incorrect. It was always known as the Valley Auto Theatre. The Dixie Drive-in was located several miles north at 4915 Dixie Highway. The screen was relocated to the Holiday Drive-in in Mitchell, IN. The Valley’s screen was exactly Panavision in width, so it appears the Holiday lost a chunk along the way. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/10000/photos/115324
Here’s an article with pictures:
https://brokensidewalk.com/2008/east-broadway-theater-a-hidden-gem/?fbclid=IwAR1UWQDHJyW713y3K_Z2coeRcaBEf6fQ1dF4QtG4yfhCzCiOs3lavRnCbTA
Coate is correct. The Sound of Music ran longer than any other movie at the Rialto. You can see ads for all of the movies to play the Rialto by going to my blog: http://scottsantoro.blogspot.com/ I started with 1968, when the theatre closed, and I just posted the ads for 1934. I intend to take it all the way back to 1921.
The first movies I remember seeing was a double bill of Song of the South and Three Coins in a Fountain. I was about three. We were living in Ft. Lauderdale from about 1956-57, so I wonder if this is where we went. I remember the truck going by spraying for mosquitoes. During Three Coins in a Fountain, one of the women dropped her purse off a railing. I was sure that if we looked at the bottom of the screen, we would find it. If this was a family drive-in, perhaps they would be more likely to have shown a Disney movie.
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A notorious kidnapping and murder of the ticket taker occurred at the Valley Drive-in in 1973. You can read all about it here:https://laurajames.typepad.com/clews/2007/05/the_valley_driv.html
The description is incorrect. It was always known as the Valley Auto Theatre. The Dixie Drive-in was located several miles north at 4915 Dixie Highway. The screen was relocated to the Holiday Drive-in in Mitchell, IN. The Valley’s screen was exactly Panavision in width, so it appears the Holiday lost a chunk along the way. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/10000/photos/115324
Here’s an article with pictures:
https://brokensidewalk.com/2008/east-broadway-theater-a-hidden-gem/?fbclid=IwAR1UWQDHJyW713y3K_Z2coeRcaBEf6fQ1dF4QtG4yfhCzCiOs3lavRnCbTA
Coate is correct. The Sound of Music ran longer than any other movie at the Rialto. You can see ads for all of the movies to play the Rialto by going to my blog: http://scottsantoro.blogspot.com/ I started with 1968, when the theatre closed, and I just posted the ads for 1934. I intend to take it all the way back to 1921.
For many years, and from the time it opened, the Ohio was a second run, low-cost theater.
The first movies I remember seeing was a double bill of Song of the South and Three Coins in a Fountain. I was about three. We were living in Ft. Lauderdale from about 1956-57, so I wonder if this is where we went. I remember the truck going by spraying for mosquitoes. During Three Coins in a Fountain, one of the women dropped her purse off a railing. I was sure that if we looked at the bottom of the screen, we would find it. If this was a family drive-in, perhaps they would be more likely to have shown a Disney movie.