Albion Drive-In Theatre - Albion MI

Address: 16462 E. Michigan
City: Albion
State: MI
Zip: 49224
County: Calhoun
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Theater Type: N/A
Number of visits to this page: 21767
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General Information:

The Albion Drive-In opened in May of 1950, operated by Albert Bohm. In the 1970’s the Albion Drive-In started showing adult movies. This movie policy continued right up to its closing in 1986. Car capacity is listed at 400.

Info Updates:
12/18/2003 - Box Office Magazine
May 1960 - M. B. "Tiny" Worden, former owner of the Temple Theatre at East Jordan, is projectionist at the Albio Drive-In for the Ryser Brothers for the summer.
1/9/2003 - Scott Biggs

The Rysers sold the Bohm Theatre and the Albion Drive-In in March, 1976 to Mid-State Theatres, Inc., an Okemos-based operation headed by Curtis Peterson. The Albion Drive-In became an "all-adult" establishment and fed its patrons from the Calhoun and Jackson county areas a steady diet of X-rated movies.

Advertisements were placed not only in the local Albion Evening Recorder, but also in the Jackson Citizen Patriot. Mid-State Theatres lost money on the X-rated films and sold the Bohm Theatre and Albion Drive-In in early 1981 to Arnold and David Simmons, operators of D.A.S. Theatres headquartered in Oxford.

The establishments were sold again in November 1981 to James Sattler of Quincy, who closed the Bohm. It was later reopened in 1984 The Albion Drive-In, however, continued to show X-rated movies and was forced to place "blinder" lights around the perimeter of the property, to prevent distracting passers-by on I-94.

The drive-in closed in 1986. Its facilities gradually deteriorated in the open weather, and the large outdoor screen was finally demolished in 1989. [Frank Passic, Albion Historian]

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