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12/18/2003 - Box Office Magazine
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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.
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1/9/2003 - Scott Biggs
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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 partons from the Calhoun and Jackson county areas a steady diet of X-rated movies. Adverstiements 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[NOTE IN DOWNTOWN ALBION] and Albion Drive-In in early 1981 to Arnold and David Simmons, operators of the D. A.
S. Theatres headquratered in Oxford. The establishments were sold agian in November 1981 to James Sattler of Quincy, who closed the Bohm in late Septmember 198.
[NOTE IT WAS LATER REQAUIRED BY SIMMONS AND REOPENED MAY 4 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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1/6/2003 - Drive-Ins.com
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This Drive In has been closed for a long time. It is located at Michigan Avenue and Finley Road, on the east side of town. If you look, you can see where the entrance was, the concession stand is still there, (what is left of it), and the poles for the speakers. It is very over grown. There is a sign listing the property, Archway Properties, Albion MI.
517-592-3811. Lynette LaPointe August 24, 2000.
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