I remember going to the Southgate MI. Drive in. located on Fort street. I saw Turner and Hooch and Honey I shrunk the kids. I was like six. now it was torn down and it's a Meijer.
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Psylent1 |
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Yeah, that was called the Fort George. Those must have
been some of the last movies ever shown on it.    |
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I remember going to the Southgate drive-in often as a kid. Great memories. I also remember the storm that came through the downriver area producing a tornado that hit that drive-in and the surrounding area. I dont recall if it ever reopened after that.
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Psylent1 |
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Which Southgate drive-in? There were two...Ft. George and another one called Southgate I think.
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MichiganDriveInsdotcom |
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The Fort George was the only drive-in in Southgate. The screen was knocked down in a March '91 storm. It never reopened.
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Psylent1 |
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Sorry but there were two. I've lived in Southgate all my life and I actually live one mile from what was then the Southgate drive-in, which is at the northwest corner of Dix-Toledo and Eureka. What I'm wondering is if it was actually called the Southgate brand drive-in?
 Without change something inside you dies, The sleeper must Awaken.
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MichiganDriveInsdotcom |
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Posts: 63 (05-11-06 6:17 PM) |
Ok, the TWO drive-ins in Southgate were the Fort (Ft.George) Drive-In and the Michigan Drive-In. No drive-in named the "Southgate".
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Psylent1 |
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Posts: 33 (06-11-06 9:23 AM) Recurring Character |
Aaaah yes! The Michigan drive in! Thanks...
 Without change something inside you dies, The sleeper must Awaken.
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may523 |
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Hi I'm new here and I still go to the drive. I love it. I take my nieces, we pack up the car with goodies, we take chairs and sit outside the car. But somehow when the food is gone they are ready to leave. hahaha
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Psylent1 |
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That sounds cool. You better hurry though, who knows how much longer they'll last...
Without change, something inside you dies......The sleeper must Awaken.
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Here is a photo of a photo that is at the Wyandotte Library of the Fort George Drive-In. The back of the photo says that it was donated by the Michigan Portrait Studio, dated August 1950. The film on the marquee came out in 1949, incidentally.
 Apparently when the Fort George opened, it was simply named the "Fort Drive-In Theatre" (which is what the 1956 city directory calls it). The 1958 city directory calls it the "Fort George Drive-In Theatre," so evidently the change occured in the mid-1950s. |
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Psylent1 |
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Posts: 33 (19-02-07 4:59 PM) Recurring Character |
Cool! Thanx 4 the memories.....
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I don't know if this will jog your memory or not....When I was a kid we went grocery shopping at what was then Kroger's on Dix. (There was a Howard Johnson's almost next door, and a Security Bank and Trust.) Across the street was the Michigan Drive-in. This would have been just up the street from the Southgate Library and the Dairy Queen and just north of Eureka.
I'm not sure when it closed and became just another strip mall. I grew up in the downriver area, my siblings went to Southgate HS and I moved to Ann Arbor in 1978. Dang, how the neighborhood's have changed!! |
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Psylent1 |
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Posts: 33 (28-03-07 6:51 AM) Recurring Character |
Thanx Splatter...we mentioned Michigan Drive-In Theater earlier in this post. It was torn down in the summer of 1985 or 86. I was there when it happened.
 Ahhhh the memories...
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The "Fort" was changed to the "Fort George" when Nicholas George theatres acquired the "Fort" D.I. in 1958. Ahhh the memories. I know that this probably isn't the place for Ohio drive ins, but if you ever get down to the Warren, Ohio area you have to visit the Elm Road Triple (the web site is the same name). This ozoner is better than the Cherry Bowl up north outside of Traverse City. GREAT food and the landscaping is superb!! Clean, clean CLEAN drive in!! Wonderful family like atmosphere with kiddie playground and three screens to enjoy. Bring as many as you can because they charge by the carload and not per person. I think the reason that ozoners have survived so well in Ohio is because of the lack of development (which is a VERY good thing)!
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