Sunset Drive-In

568 E. Liberty Street,
Sumter, SC 29153

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50sSNIPES
50sSNIPES on March 7, 2025 at 4:48 pm

The Sunset Drive-In never opened in 1946. Sumter didn’t get its first drive-in theater until the July 1947 opening of the Sumter Drive-In.

The Sunset Drive-In was the second in Sumter, opening on April 28, 1949 with Jack Carson in “April Showers” along with the Popeye cartoon “House Tricks?”, and closed on September 11, 1963 with “Lisa”.

rivest266
rivest266 on August 4, 2020 at 12:52 pm

The “New and Modern Drive-In” opened on April 28th, 1949 and renamed Sunset Drive-In on May 27th, 1949. Grand opening ads posted.

dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on August 4, 2020 at 3:33 am

The M.K.B. Sunset Drive-In Theatre opened April 28, 1949 with Ann Southern and Jack Carson in “April Showers” supported by the Popeye cartoon, “House Tricks?” It closed with Dolores Hart in “Lisa” on September 11, 1963.