22nd Street Drive-In
1401 S. Belvedere Avenue,
Tucson,
AZ
85711
1401 S. Belvedere Avenue,
Tucson,
AZ
85711
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A closer address is 1380 S Belvedere Ave, Tucson, AZ.
Google Maps has updated their addresses and this puts it right on the property.
In addition to the outline and ramps, the screen foundation is still there.
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Also opened with the Disney featurette “Ben and Me”.
Outline and faint remnants of ramps can still be seen by satellite view. An Arizona Autism Charter School sits on a portion of the property.
Opened on 30/5/1954 with “The living Desert”, “Ben and me” and “Make haste to live”.
Boxoffice, May 15, 1954: “J. Harry Agron has opened his 600-car 22nd Street Drive-In in Tucson”
Goggle Earth 1992
In about 1954, the 22nd Street Drive-In claimed to have the largest CinemaScope screen in the world.
This opened on June 2nd, 1954.
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