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Update: M. B. "Tiny" Worden, former owner of the Temple Theatre at East Jordan, is projectionist at the Albion Drive-In for the Ryser Brothers
for the summer. (Box Office Magazine May 1960)
Update: Only the gutted snack bar and speaker poles remain. (Michigandriveins.com 5/4/02)
Update: The speaker poles and Albion snack bar ruins remain, now labeled no trespassing. No remains of the screen foundations were found. (Michigandriveins.com June 2003)
UPDATE: The Rysers sold the Bohm Theatre and the Albion Drive-In in March, 1976 to Mid-State Theatres, Inc., an Okemos-based operation
headed by Curtis Peterson....The Albion Drive-In became an "all-adult" establishment and fed its partons from the Calhoun and Jackson county
areas a steady diet of X-rated movies. Advertisements were placed not only in the local Albion Evening Recorder, but also in the Jackson Citizen
Patriot. Mid-State Theatres lost money on the X-rated films and sold the Bohm Theatre [Note: in Downtown Albion] and Albion Drive-In
in early 1981 to Arnold and David Simmons, operators of the D.A.S. Theatres headquartered in Oxford. The establishments were sold again in
November 1981 to James Sattler of Quincy, who closed the Bohm Theatre in late Septmember 198..[Note: it was later reaquired by Simmons
and reopened May 4, 1984]. The Albion Drive-In, however, continued to show X-rated movies and was forced to place "blinder"
lights around the perimeter of the property, to prevent distracting passers-by on I-94. The drive-in closed in 1986. Its facilities gradually
deteriorated in the open weather, and the large outdoor screen was finally demolished in 1989. Frank Passic, Albion Historian.
(Scott Biggs/Waterwinterwonderland.com 3/6/04)
Update: The Albion opened for business on Tuesday, May 9th, 1950. It closed sometime in the early 1980's after running adult movies since 1976.
The screen tower was demolished March 1st, 1989. (Michigandriveins.com 3/6/04)
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