Many years ago, this was the site of the Montgomery Drive-in Movie Theater.
We would load up the car every now and then to head out to watch a movie under the night sky for a few dollars. I remember my brother and I would go play on the swings and slides near the screen before the movie started.
After parking, you would get the speaker off the post to put in your car for the sound and hoped it worked fairly well. If it didn’t, the quality was poor, much like the speakers at some of today’s drive-through restaurants.
During intermission, we would watch the singing and dancing forks, spoons, hotdogs and such on the screen encouraging us to come get something from the concession stand.
It might be hard for some of you to imagine, but when you came out to the drive-in, you were in the “sticks”. There wasn’t much of anything around here except a veterinarian’s clinic. No neighborhoods, malls, stores, restaurants or universities. Bellehurst subdivision (about a mile west) was the last development you passed as you were leaving “town” to come to the drive-in.
When I was a teenager, the property was sold. The drive-in was demolished. Delchamps built a grocery store here. The store eventually closed and various businesses have passed through here since. The “city” rapidly moved east to become what it is today.
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