Dixie Lee Drive-In
110 S. Watt Road,
Knoxville,
TN
37934
110 S. Watt Road,
Knoxville,
TN
37934
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Listed in the 1952 edition of Theatre Catalog as being located at Dixie Lee Junction in Lenoir City. It was operated by Exhibitor Service Co. When I first moved to Knoxville in 1972, the Dixie Lee Drive-In was open, and showing X-rated movies. It closed in the 1980’s, but the sign and screen remained until around 1991. It was located on the south side of Kingston Pike in far western Knox County on the left side of the highway if you are driving away from Knoxville.
I believe there was also a small community called Dixie Lee surrounding it. Today the site is occupied by Cool Sports Icearium.
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Tlsloews you guys and North Carolina have alot of Drive-ins and I have seen alot in East Tenn.
O.K. Mike.
It truly is amazing the screens you see from the past covered in moss in many rural towns like the Midway or Newport Drive-in. I have traveled that area even before the interstates as a kid and I remember Drive-ins almost carved into Mountains. Moonshine and drive-ins.
Dixie Lee Drive-in continued to show mostly soft X-rated movies with an occasional hard X as a special late feature on into the early 1980’s.
Thanks Nimrod,like up dates from K-town.
Added Goggle Earth view from 1991.
The address for the drive-in is:
110 S Watt Rd, Knoxville, TN
I posted a picture of the marquee in the photo section.
thanks a lot….
Can anyone remember what the feature was for the week of 15 July, when Star Wars came to town?
Fotomac, The movies playing on July 15, 1977 were “Spicy L.A.”, and “Forbidden Pleasures”.