Del Vue Drive-In
813 W. Cedar Grove Road,
Irvine,
KY
40336
813 W. Cedar Grove Road,
Irvine,
KY
40336
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Previous Names: Mack Drive-In
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The Mack Drive-In was opened on August 4, 1955 with Gary Cooper in “Vera Cruz”. Car capacity was listed at 360 cars. Cedar Grove Road is also caled Dark Hollow Road. It was closed on September 25, 1967 with “Kentucky Rebel” & Jane Fonda in “The Game is Over”. At some point of time in reopened as the Del Vue Drive-In.
The outline of the drive-in is still visible with a lot of underbrush. The entrance to the drive-in was on Cedar Grove Road at Robbins Street. The Del Vue Drive-In was open until at least 1985.
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Chuck
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The address for this drive in is 813 W Cedar Grove Rd, Irvine, KY 40336. Now New Beginning Fellowship Church. All ramps have now been paved over for the church’s parking lot.
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I think there’s some confusion on this entry by Chuck. Reporting of the day shows that Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. and Connie McClanahan took on Irvine’s hardtop Estill Theatre changing its name who to the Mack Theatre at its reopening in December of 1951. In January of 1955, they switched to widescreen projection. The McClanahans also built the Mack Drive-In in West Irvine to operate both seasonally. The Mack Drive-In was a new-build facility that could play widescreen films, as well, opening on August 4, 1955 with Gary Cooper and Burt Lancaster in “Vera Cruz.”
The hardtop Mack closed on April 16, 1962 for the summer with the Mack Drive-In reopening for the season four days later. The Mack hardtop doesn’t appear to have reopened. The Mack continued through the 1967 season under that name closing after the September 25, 1967 showings of “Kentucky Rebel” and “The Game Is Over.”
After inactivity, D. Baker took on the Mack renaming it as the Del Vue Drive-In at some point. As for a Palmer Drive-In, the only thing that registers is that there was a New Drive-In Theatre built near the Irvine Bridge that is visible on a satellite map. It launched by Palmer & Taylor on October 16, 1947 with “Let Them Have It.” So it’s possible that it could have been called, informally, the Palmer or, more likely, Palmer’s Drive-In in Irvine though advertised as the New Drive-In Theatre. In 1948, that drive-in is used for staging of events.
As there is no evidence that this was ever the Palmer Drive-In - launching as the Mack in 1955 - I think that’s the better timeline.