As it turns out, the
building is still standing. So below are two more shots of this ghost of cheap
Midwestern entertainment, retrofitted for commercial storage years ago.
Consider Your Culture as Artifact
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Springfield Drive-In: A Study in Slow Decay
The Springfield Drive-In was the first outdoor theater
to open in that Midwestern city – sometime during the early 1950s, I believe.
It closed during the early 1980s, after 30 years of intermission jingles and
dubious picture and sound quality. The first image is of the concession stand
as it was about five years into its abandonment – around 1988.
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Great pictures, I would love to see this in person. I always wanted to open up a drive-in movie theater, there are none these days. It was turned into commercial storage?
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