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Menands Drive-in
Status: Demolished
Location: 431 Broadway, Menands, NY 12204
Screens: 1
Capacity: 455 cars
Original owner: Unknown
Opening date: May 19, 1949
Final season: 1965
What's there now: Unoccupied office buildings

This page was last updated on December 7, 2009.

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Topo Map from 1995, provided courtesy of TerraServer USA. Aerial image from 2006, provided courtesy of Google Earth. Grand opening article from the Albany Times-Union on May 19, 1949. Grand opening ad from the Albany Times-Union on May 19, 1949.
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Drive-in currend day image taken in fall of 2007, courtesy of Frank Fisher.      

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Ahh fantastic memories. Just outside the Drive in was the "original Hot Dog Charlies". Tiny little "Hembold" hot dogs made famous by a "still in existance" called interestingly enough Famous Lunch in Troy NY.

For 20.00 you could take a family of 6 people, get dinner at 6-8pm and get into the drive in to see such films as Tammy and the Doctor with the very young, very sexy Debbie Reynolds.

These days I would not trade for all the gold in the world.

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#1 - Rtist - 03/01/2010 - 14:02
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