Lights Out: Abandoned American Drive-Ins
| January 30, 2019
Auto Drive-In
Located in Titusville, Pennsylvania, the Auto Drive-In is one of just a few drive-in movie theaters that used the name “auto” in their name. It was opened in 1950, just as drive-in theaters were taking off, and played family-friendly movies until the mid-1970s. After that point, it was hard for them to continue making money playing just mainstream Hollywood movies, so they switched to more adult fare. This scheme kept them open until the early 1980s, when declining sales forced them to shut their doors.
If you pass by there today, you can still see the large screen from Route 8, but the grounds are now a lumber yard.
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