Last night I spent a very nice evening in Felton at the Diamond State Drive-In Theatre. We watched two underrated movies “Space Chimps” (which was very funny) and Eddie Murphy’s “Meet Dave” (which I slept through but my family tells me was good). It was a “Dusk to Dawn” bill which progressed on to some Vin Diesel movie and
Anyway, what a fun night. The snack bar food is good and a good value, the bathrooms are clean and it was an all around great product and great entertainment value.
Here is a bit of history. The current operators (I guess) are renting and it seems that the land that the theater occupies has been appraised at $1.2 million and the land owners will be clearing the property in order to sell it.
The bottom line is that (barring some miracle) the drive in will go dark in mid-november Delaware’s last Drive-In will close forever.
The Drive-In operators seemed pretty resigned to their fate, but they invited Carney, Markell, Lee and Protack to last night’s show to talk about “Historic Preservation” and got one response….from Protack….who called to ask if they thought there would be any press…. when they said, “probably not” they never heard back from him.
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