Ribault Drive-In

The Ribault Drive-In is notable for an August 24, 1957 advertisement containing a quadruple run with films that began with the word “Hell”, and a r**ing investigation from the Jacksonville Police Department, reporting of a man and a little girl at the playground section of the Ribault Drive-In on March 3, 1955. Its opening/closing dates were not discovered yet.

Boxoffice, Feb. 8, 1960: “Carlton J. Carter has taken over operation of the local Ribault and Air Base drive-ins, which have been operated for the past several months by Irving Sochin.”

Davidcoppock, The Ribault Drive-in was located in the NW part of Jacksonville, near the Ribault River, thus a number of businesses in that part of Jacksonville used the Ribault name. The Ribault name comes from the French explorer, JEAN RIBAULT, who was credited for exploring parts of the SE US, and claiming territory for France. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ribault

Eastern Federal owned and operated the Ribault Drive-In in its early years, but closed it when operating cost exceeded revenue. They leased it out to a couple independent operators while I was in Jacksonville from late 1980 to late 1984 with Eastern Federal.

When I worked for eastern federal at the midway and fox drive in, the DM came to us and said that the drive ins just was not making it, (money), at the time and shut all drive ins and some indoors at the same time. What a bummer. That really takes the wind out of your sails.

I think you may have something there. The address is right so a church may have built all over it. I need to go check it out.