Grand River Drive-In Theatre

Info Updates:

12/15/2014 - LISA COVERT

LOT A FUN BACK IN THE 70S. THE GUYS WOULD STREAK AND THEY HOLD THE DOOR SHUT IT WAS SO FUNNY. LOT OF GREAT TIMES.

1/9/2012 - Doug Reed

I worked there in 1976. i worked in the concession stand. after it closed for the nite,i used to sit in the back corner with my 1971 RoadRunner and chase down peole who ran the exit road. lots of fun.

8/19/2005 - Sean Doerr

Ford-Wyoming has some of the speakers from the Grand River Drive-In that are currently being used.

3/29/2004 - John Asselin

At the end, it had three screens. I believe the two additional screens were built around 1983.

3/10/2004 - John Lauter

Correction here - the Drive in stood where Target and the parking areas for that strip mall sit today--not the Chevy dealer. The Chevy dealer (then KA Roger Peck Chev) was there concurrent to the latter days of the Drive-in operation. I worked there, briefly in 1976. There was no small amount of animosity between the car dealer and the drive in operators, who once allowed an extremely disgruntled customer to park his lemon of a Chevy in the exit of the drive in with a huge sign reading "Roger Peck Chevrolet sold me this lemon". The marquee was along Grand River ave, and the screen was perpendicular along the west property line, next to the Chevy dealer.

3/8/2004 - Keith Collins

Target is just to the west of the old drive-in property. A Chevy dealer is actually on the original site. This drive- in theatre and the A&W 2 blocks to the west, were a few of Farmingtons finest entertainment spots in the 1960s.

1/6/2003 - Drive-Ins.com

I think a Target is there now. Lost in the 80s with rising property values, had AM radio, 2 screens. Lynette A. Starr