Calgary Herald from Calgary, Alberta, Canada • 71

the 16th Avenue Drive-in ran an all-night promotion: a four-feature western, a western band at intermission and a live horse as a door prize. we got rained out, but we still gave away the horse," recalls a staff member.) The original Corral Drive-In opened in 1964 at Macleod Trail and Anderson Road, with a huge party for visiting shareholders. There were lineups of more than 1,500 cars (the drive-in accommodated only 1,150 cars), free food from the concession booth, and a group of Sarcee Indians hired to dance at intermission. The negotiated fee for the dancing was $700 worth of movie passes, which the chief unexpectedly demanded in' the middle of the evening. So the shareholders (and spouses) of the Corral spent much of the festive evening scribbling hundreds of movie passes while the crowd partied on.

The Chinook Drive-In presented a special Gene Au-try program in 1951 and gave away ponies as door prizes. THE DRIVE-INS Once seven drive-ins reigned as meccas for carloads of frugal families and torrid teens. Now only the (new) Corral remains, located in southeast Calgary. The Cinema Park Drive-In was located on 22 hectares of land, but closed in the early '70s to make way for Point McKay. The Sunset Drive-In (which closed last year) was south of McKnight Boulevard off Edmonton Trail.

The Corral Drive-In, once at Anderson Road and Macleod Trail, was replaced by the LRT station. The 17th Avenue Drive-in, at 45th Street S.W., is now the site of an Alberta Motor Association branch. The Chinook Drive-In disappeared, and Chinook Centre lives in its place. In the heyday of the drive-ins, the drive-in managers, although working for competing companies, co-operated in their drive for business, regularly zooming across town to lend or borrow buns or condiments if a busy night created a shortage. The Chinook Drive-In, when it opened in 1949, was the first drive-in west of Winnipeg.

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