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Woodland Drive-In

4005 S 700 E, Salt Lake City, UT

It opened July 1, 1949 with Abbott and Costello and billed itself as having the brightest curved screen in Utah.

📅 1949–1983🏛️ TheaterDemolished
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The story

The Starlit Woodland Drive-In opened on July 1, 1949, and was soon renamed the Woodland. Its opening bill was Abbott and Costello's Mexican Hayride, Man-Eater of Kumaon and two MGM cartoons. E.N. Woodland operated it, and Cartwright & Wilson did the architecture. Cinema Treasures lists a capacity of 625 cars.

It advertised the brightest curved screen in Utah, and one ad used the phrase Largest Brightest Screen in Utah. It was still operating in 1967. It closed on October 24, 1983, and was gone by 1984.

What's There Now

Not stated in the opened source.

Everything that was here

Did you know?

Commenters describe a 65 by 70 foot screen and a $75,000 build cost, which are unverified.
A commenter says the entrance was at 4021 South 700 East.
The architects were Cartwright & Wilson.

Nearby history

Highland Drive-In

3670 S Highland Dr · 2.1 km away
A concrete screen tower with HIGHLAND on the back got a $400,000 twin-screen remodel in 1961.

Calder's Park / Wandamere

2780 S 700 E · 2.9 km away
A spring-fed amusement park with a boating lake and 100,000 visitors a season became a nine-hole golf course.

Snelgrove's Ice Cream parlor and plant

850 E 2100 S · 4.5 km away
The Sugar House flagship of Snelgrove's had art deco decor, a factory out back and a 1962 double-cone sign, closing in 2

Smith's Ballpark

1365 S West Temple · 6.5 km away
Opened in 1994 on the Derks Field site as one of the early double-decked AAA stadiums.

Oak Hills Drive-In

2775 E 1000 S · 7.1 km away
A drive-in just southeast of Hogle Zoo let neighbors pay $50 for a speaker hookup and watch from home.

Trolley Square (Utah Light and Railway car barns)

602 E 500 S · 8.1 km away
E.H. Harriman spent $3.5 million on streetcar barns here; the last trolley left in 1945 and a mall opened in 1972.

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Sourceshttps://cinematreasures.org/theaters/34669