Denver Drive In Theaters

[eddiememphis]

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.

[BladesNBarrels]

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.

[eddiememphis]

Thanks for the link

[flogger]

I remember that one, it was on the South-West corner of the Monaco and Evans intersection.

[Tor Larson]

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.

[HBARleatherneck]

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/production/photos/297236/1581289006/large.jpg?1581289006

https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?mediatype=photography&excludenudity=true&phrase=denver+municipal+trap+club&sort=mostpopular

https://www.ar-15.co/threads/161872-Trap-shooting-at-Sloans-Lake-Bet-you-didn-t-know?highlight=sloans

From USMC88-93 thread


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/PhotoTWB/Old%20family%20pix/sloans2_zpsuvmthwdi.jpg




https://history.denverlibrary.org/sites/history/files/styles/blog_image/public/cdm_24850.jpg?itok=XufeeP5u

https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/denver/building-southwest-corner-sloans-lake-was-once-denver-municipal-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.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjIpyb5gXGijbRBvv0iDpt1TrIg8LhRvoVra-rQzV8y5nvNFjncBk8OCmfHM_nwzPyVu2ePlgP5MEV5h8c7EIZ3 hXVo_gMkhwXUHnbe5W_1Ri0522cfN0aJvb24fzCLZqbYe6ztVH j0i4/s640/PignWhistle.jpg

[eddiememphis]

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.

[flogger]

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!

[Martinjmpr]

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/production/photos/297236/1581289006/large.jpg?1581289006

https://www.gettyimages.com/search/2/image?mediatype=photography&excludenudity=true&phrase=denver+municipal+trap+club&sort=mostpopular

https://www.ar-15.co/threads/161872-Trap-shooting-at-Sloans-Lake-Bet-you-didn-t-know?highlight=sloans

From USMC88-93 thread


https://img.photobucket.com/albums/v651/PhotoTWB/Old%20family%20pix/sloans2_zpsuvmthwdi.jpg




https://history.denverlibrary.org/sites/history/files/styles/blog_image/public/cdm_24850.jpg?itok=XufeeP5u

https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/denver/building-southwest-corner-sloans-lake-was-once-denver-municipal-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.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjIpyb5gXGijbRBvv0iDpt1TrIg8LhRvoVra-
rQzV8y5nvNFjncBk8OCmfHM_nwzPyVu2ePlgP5MEV5h8c7EIZ3 hXVo_gMkhwXUHnbe5W_1Ri0522cfN0aJvb24fzCLZqbYe6ztVH j0i4/s640/PignWhistle.jpg

The sign was still up at least a decade or more after Eddie Bohn's closed.

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.

[TheSparkens]

Down south it was the centennial drive-in at Bellview and Federal or the ones at Bellview and Windermere.