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This for the old guys around here.
My sister insists there was a drive-in at Monaco and Evans called Valley Hi Drive-In.
I can't find any evidence of it on the web.
Is she correct? All I can remember around there was the Rainbow Music Hall.
And the Denver Drumstick up the street. That was cool- they had a little train inside that drove around inside the restaurant.
From cinematreasures.org
The Valley Drive-In was opened June 6, 1953 with Lash La Rue in “The Daltons' Women”. It was operated by Wolfberg Theatres. It was closed in July 1977.
Thanks for the link
I remember that one, it was on the South-West corner of the Monaco and Evans intersection.
A good drive-in was next to Sloans Lake. They let EMS/Fire/LE in for free. Great times: summer, sitting in the rig watching good movies, waiting for calls. Erie race track was also fun: eating free dogs, watching the races or demolition derby, running hot to the crashes. $4 hr and my rig was a Caddy. I was King of the World and Colfax was so much fun to cruise on Fri/Sat nites.
Lake Shore Drive in is the way Tor Larson mentioned. I remember seeing Raise the Titanic, Coalminers Daughter, ET and others there. They had skeet shooting across the street years earlier.
88 Drive-In in Commerce City is still open I think. Cinderella Twin was at Hampden and Santa Fe.
https://photos.cinematreasures.org/p...jpg?1581289006
https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2...rt=mostpopular
https://www.ar-15.co/threads/161872-...ghlight=sloans
From USMC88-93 thread
https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v...psuvmthwdi.jpg
https://history.denverlibrary.org/si...?itok=XufeeP5u
https://history.denverlibrary.org/ne...ipal-trap-club
if you know the area you might remember Eddie Bohn's Pig and Whistle. He was an ex boxer turned entrepreneur. Every Which way but loose has a scene in this business.
https://blogger.googleusercontent.co...ignWhistle.jpg
I saw Red Dawn at the Drive-in on East Colfax. And I think that is where I saw The Terminator as well.
I don't remember what it was called.
Great memories. Crappy speakers, playground for the kids under the screen, one-way tire puncture strips at the exit lane. The lobby crowd during intermission was always memorable.
How about when some a-hole pulled in with his headlights on, blinding the screen. Station wagons full of kids and sleeping bags!
The sign was still up at least a decade or more after Eddie Bohn's closed.Quote:
Originally Posted by HBARleatherneck
In 1981 and 82 I worked at a printing shop on West Colfax, and lived off of East Colfax and Adams. Sometimes if the weather was nice I'd walk home after work. It was 8 miles and took me around 2 hours but I didn't have much else going on and I liked walking.
Sad to see how run down West Colfax has gotten. It actually used to be a nice and prosperous part of town.
Down south it was the centennial drive-in at Bellview and Federal or the ones at Bellview and Windermere.