Golden Spike Drive-In
11102 W. Dodge Road,
Omaha,
NE
68154
11102 W. Dodge Road,
Omaha,
NE
68154
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The Golden Spike Drive-In was opened on August 22, 1952 with Kathryn Grayson in “Showboat” & Raymond Walburn in “Father Makes Good”. It was closed on September 14, 1984 with Zach Galligan in “Gremlins” and Robert Carradine in “Revenge of the Nerds”.
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The location is now home to Miracle Hills Shopping Center, an outdoor mall.
This drive in was opened in 1955. It closed in 1985. It had one screen and it was located at 114 & West Dodge Road.It was the farthest west the cars cruising would go. People would hang out at the Burger King across the street, and we would walk through the drive-thru between pictures. One time they wouldn’t serve us; they said it a DRIVE-thru. We just told them we lost the car.
This opened on August 22nd, 1952. I posted an ad here.
Loved this drive-in, saw loads of horror movies back in 1979-1980 here. Dawn of the dead being the most memorable :)
Correct Address:
11102 W Dodge Rd
Omaha, NE 68154
Openeed with a colour cartoon(not named), and “Showboat” and “Father makes good”. Closed in 1985. Is the name Golden Spike have anything to do with the Transcontinental train line?
Exactly. Omaha is the home of Union Pacific Railroad, ½ of the team to build it. Also, this section of West Dodge Road was originally was part of the Old Lincoln Highway, one of the earliest transcontinental highways.
Central States ceased advertising its Golden Spike Drive-In Theatre on September 14, 1984 with “Revenge of the Nerds” likely ending its run.
Also closed with “Gremlins”, which ran before “Revenge Of The Nerds”. There is also a mention about a scheduled showing of “Bachelor Party” the following Friday on the bottom of the advertisement, but that remains completely unknown if that was shown because I don’t see any showtimes nor advertisements anywhere.
I was a union projectionist and operated there in 75-76. Rough place. Booth in a little block building by itself, between concession building and screen. How rough? The ports had embedded chicken wire in them. If the film stopped for any reason, you’d hear beer bottles breaking on the outside of the booth building!