Parkin

A wide shot of the property. The snack bar/projection building is on the far left. Photo taken on 8-7-2000 by Sandy Jacobson.
-- Ken Layton

Wide shot of the field. Taken on 8-7-2000 by Sandy Jacobson.
-- Ken Layton

Closer shot of the screen which is all metal. The construction is similar to our screen at the Skyline. Photo taken 8-7-2000 by Sandy Jacobson.
-- Ken Layton

Close up of the back of the all metal screen tower. Apparantly, there is some sort of an exiting area here behind the screen. This part is easy to see in the satellite photo--just look for the screen tower.

Taken 8-7-2000 by Sandy Jacobson. She says the theater marquee has been painted over and now advertises a cafe down the street. Theater has been closed a few years.

If you look at the other photos, most of the speaker posts have the junction boxes missing. A few have the junction boxes with no top covers exposing the wiring and terminal strips inside to the elements. I can only assume they were using radio sound when they closed. The theater looks like it's still in good shape---just mow the field, pressure wash the screen, and paint the speaker posts!

Ken Layton

Park-In photo album, by mlutthans.

J. Bessett-Ganesauge adds this:

I just wanted to clarify some things about the Lakeview Park Drive-In. The cement columns that are under/behind the screen aren't openings for an entrance or exit. They're the foundations for the old screen. One year during a heavy wind storm the old screen was blown down. The steel screen structure that still stands today was erected and the old base was left unused. During the time that the drive-in was in operation it was fenced in and there was no opening under the screen as there is now.

As for sound, we never had radio speakers. Until it's closing (approximately 1992-94) we still used the original ones that you hung on your window with the cable going to the speaker post.

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