Bridgeport Drive-In
600 Cherry Lane,
Lawrenceville,
IL
62439
600 Cherry Lane,
Lawrenceville,
IL
62439
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This started life as the Midway Drive-In, opened by the Frisina Amusement Company on June 7, 1957 with Richard Widmark in “Hell And High Water” and Robert Mitchum in “River Of No Return” (unknown if extras added). Its original screen measures 40x80ft. Frisina first planned on the theater exactly three years before its construction started.
A 1985 aerial shows the drive-in intact, but overgrown. It looks like it had closed years earlier.
Demolished in the early 1990s.