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Mohawk Drive-in
Status: Demolished
Location: 1814 Central Ave., Rte 5, Colonie, NY 12205
Screens: 1
Capacity: 1,000 cars
Original owner: Built by Simon Fabian and Neil Hellman.
Opening date: June 1, 1946
Final season: 1986
What's there now: Shopping plaza

This page was last updated on December 7, 2009.

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Topo Map from 1995, courtesy of TerraServer USA. Aerial image from 2006, courtesy of Google Earth. Opening tomorrow ad from the Albany Times-Union on May 31, 1946. Grand opening artical from the Albany Times-Union on June 1, 1946.
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Grand opening ad from the Schenectady Gazette on June 1, 1946.   Day after grand opening artical from the Albany Times-Union on June 2, 1946. Day after grand-opening ad from the Albany Times-Union on June 2, 1946.
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Mohawk Drive-in picture from 1950. Mohawk Drive-in entrance in 1986, it's final season. Showing on the marquee is a double feature of Poltergeist II: The Other Side with Invaders From Mars.
Screen tower image from 1987.
Album cover for the Albany band Blotto for their 1981 single "When the Second Feature Starts."
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Shopping plaza sign taken in fall 2007, provided courtesy of Rick Cohen. Shopping plaza image taken in fall 2007, courtesy of Rick Cohen.    

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Village sq was not the mohawk drive in
#1 - mike - 08/05/2010 - 21:16
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