Barbie holds onto top spot at the weekend box office. Find Theaters & Showtimes Near Me Latest News See All. Theaters Nearby Regal E-Walk & RPX (0.1 mi) Hard Rock Cafe (0.1 mi) BelasTheatre (0.2 mi). Read Reviews | Rate Theater 234 West 42nd St., New York, NY 10036 View Map. It's a partnership between and "Join if you're from Rochester New York" on Facebook.AMC Empire 25 AMC Empire 25. " is a feature that explores favorite haunts of the past and revisits the headlines of yesteryear. Morrell is a Rochester-based freelance writer. But there was nothing like seeing a movie, no matter how bad it was, under the stars at a drive-in. The Lakeshore exited four years later.įlat-screen TVs and high-tech theaters are all the rage for movie-watching now. A year later, the Starlite followed, and the Washington ended its run in 1988. The Central, Empire and Rochester lasted until 1982. North Park Drive-In was the first to close, in 1970. Profits continued to nosedive, and developers drooled over the land for business parks and the like. "The most trouble they could remember … was a teen-ager making his way to the roof of the snack stand and mooning the audience," Talarico reported. In the 1986 article, Talarico spoke with a couple who had worked at and gone to drive-ins for years. By the early 1980s, local drive-ins were largely places for youths who went to party and drink beer.Įven still, problems were minimal. The Rochester showed X-rated flicks, which led to battles with Chili officials for years. Some places, like the Lakeshore, offered dusk-till-dawn features that ran all night. When the crowds eventually dropped off, local drive-in operators tried new gimmicks to draw them back. "If you're entering or leaving the theater while the film is in progress, turn off your lights and find your way in the dark." Other rules: Don't be too nosy about your neighbor's fogged-up windows, and "use your horn liberally to state your opinion." "Use care with your headlights," he wrote. There was protocol to follow, Garner noted in the 1988 story. A "concession time clock" projected on the screen provided a countdown to the next feature. Many a story was told of motorists who, absent-mindedly or otherwise, drove off with a speaker still attached to their car window.ĭrive-ins had playgrounds beneath the giant screens where kids played before the movies started. The speakers were clunky and easy to forget. "Your first goal upon arrival was to find one that worked," he wrote. They weren't great quality, as Jack Garner noted in a 1988 Democrat and Chronicle article. Speakers were necessary before drive-ins converted to AM radio reception years later. "We did a capacity business and then we had 920 speakers." "On opening night, traffic was backed up for two miles in both directions," he said.
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The owner of the Rochester Drive-In remembered in a 1982 Democrat and Chronicle story the huge crowds for the movie Exodus, which was released in 1960. Others here followed in the 1940s and 1950s. The first in Monroe County was the Rochester, which debuted in 1942, according to the website. The first drive-in opened in 1933 in Camden, N.J. "There's still something special, something fun, something uniquely American about going to a drive-in movie." "Families still come with kids in pajamas, lovers still snuggle, some movie-goers still try to sneak in by hiding in the trunk, and teen-agers still perch on the hoods of their cars," wrote Talarico, who was the city of Rochester's resident writer at the time.
By then, only the Washington - which Talarico had just visited - and the Lakeshore remained. Ross Talarico documented the appeal of the places in a July 1986 Times Union article. The Rochester area had plenty of choices: the Central on Long Pond Road in Gates, the Empire on Empire Boulevard in Webster, the Rochester on Scottsville Road in Chili, the Starlite on West Henrietta Road in Henrietta, the North Park on Hudson Avenue, the Washington in East Rochester and the Lakeshore on Ling Road in Greece. It's always been about being outdoors, having fun under the stars on a warm night. The drive-in has never been a good place to see a movie.
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