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Sun is setting on Columbia Drive-In
Shows this weekend, including 'Witness,' will be theater's last
Intelligencer Journal
Oct 11, 2005 09:19 EST
COLUMBIA
By Chad Umble, Staff

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QUOTE(wonderwoman @ Oct 11 2005, 10:38 PM)
..........The Skyview Drive In Theater

.................................................The Comet

There was one over in York County, too.

Gone

Like sands through the hourglass....

so are the drive in theaters of our lives.


Ya know whats really sad... the kids sit in front of TV.. the computer.. and all the new entertainment sources. But its one on one... not group stuff... not the experience of being with someone to feel. Just a tube filled with other peoples experiences... not their own.

We wonder why kids turn to wacked out people,,,, do we give them alternatives... or just pastic, digital baby sitters.

electricbender
Nona.....I don't know EcoMex, but it looks like I have a fan club. hmmm?

I don't feel another strip mall in that area is the best use of the land. There is a shopping center within 1 mile in both directions of the site. The Kmart shopping center has every kind of shop needed. The Weis Market shopping center has not thrived. Parts of it sit vacant from time to time. Lots of wasted space.
As far as building housing on that site.....I question who would want to live there.....its on a flood plane and has the worst smelling farm/field surrounding it!

Lola13
I'd like to see the drive-in move to Manheim Township (where the proposed movie theater is supposed to be built). I think it'd be a big hit to put the drive-in next to freeze & frizz.
Lola13
QUOTE(driveinboi @ Oct 12 2005, 03:33 PM)
(I believe is owned by High Industries)


Wrong.
NonaYabiznis
QUOTE(eurytopic @ Oct 11 2005, 03:21 PM)
I see no point in punishing those who open and run businesses on that property. They aren't the ones who decided to sell the drive-in.


Maybe so, but investing in property that has this amount of animosity swirling around it doesn't sound like a sound investment to me. There are plenty of other vacant properties that would live to have tenants.

Besides, these prospective business owners are being forewarned, if they ignore these warnings, whose truly to blame.

In addition; by providing revenue for these, likely, commercial tenants is providing revenue for the weasel (Hogan) who refuses to cooperate with the owner of the drive in. It is totally within his power to reach an agreement and save himself from all this hostility.

Hogan is, to paraphrase a line I once heard, "just a squirrel trying to get a nut". Neither him, nor any of his tenants will be getting any from me. Unless, of course, the drive in remains part of the overall picture.

ThePaison
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