Eastside Drive-In

19440 Harper Ave Harper Woods MI 48225

Opened simply as the Drive-In, this was the Detroit area's first drive-in theater, opening on May 26, 1938. Tickets for the first film, "The Big Broadcast of 1938" were 35 cents a person and the screen measured 50 feet by 50 feet. Renamed the Eastside, it became part of the General Cinema chain and was later sold to Wisper & Wetsman.

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