Silver Moon Drive-In
4100 New Tampa Highway,
Lakeland,
FL
33815
4100 New Tampa Highway,
Lakeland,
FL
33815
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Silver Moon Drive-In Theatre (Official)
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Previously operated by: Carmike Cinemas, Floyd Theaters
Functions: Movies (First Run), Swap Meet
Styles: Streamline Moderne
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
863.682.0849
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Located at the junction of New Tampa Highway and Gay Road. The Silver Moon Drive-In opened April 14, 1948 with a capacity for 372 cars. By 1956 it was operated by Floyd Theaters. On December 19, 1984, a second screen was added to the drive-in.
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Valley Drive-in in Aiken County,S.C. was the same way according to projectionists most of the movie was in “the pine trees!”
Video from the 50th Anniversary Celebration in 1998: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX_Yr7At5-s
The Silver Moon Drive-in can be glimpsed momentarily by passengers on passing Amtrak trains. : )
(I just uploaded a photo.)
2017 photo added, credit Chuck Ellis-The Flying Valiant.
Also below is the Silver Moon Drive-In’s Facebook page with link to their website.
https://www.facebook.com/silvermoondrivein/?fref=mentions
Is this theater showing films in scope actually on the screen now that they are digital?
Boxoffice, Feb. 18, 1950: I. Q. Mize, president of the Highway Amusement Co., told the story of his last-minute naming of the drive-in. “One morning before daylight as he and his wife were arising earlier than usual, Mize glanced through a bedroom window and was entranced with the silvery appearance of the moon which shone through his bedroom window.”
Opened on 13/5/1948 with “Up goes Maizie”.
Twinned on December 19, 1984.
Do they still have the picture off the side of the screen into the dark?
Right after Carmike purchased the Floyd Theaters chain in 1995, the theater became independently-operated.