Update:.....I do recall a drive-in just West of Ishpeming on US 41 that, I believe, was called the Pines Drive In. (note:this was actually the Evergreen Drive-In) I'm not certain on the name. But it was pretty run down at that time and showed only adult films before it went belly up. I also remember it because there used to a sign pointing out the Barnes Hecker Memorial. I didn't realize the significance of that until the U-P Iron Industry Museum opened. Barnes Hecker was an underground iron mine that closed after the mine flooded when work crews were blasting and accidentally blew a hole in the bottom of a small lake or pond. Of the men who were working there, only one escaped by climbing a small ladder barely ahead of the rushing water. The mine was sealed with the dead men's bodies inside. A large memorial headstone with all the miners names on it was erected at the site, near the drive in. In the late 1980's the memorial was moved to the Iron Museum. So that drive-in site has a rather tragic historical past. (Terry Kovarik 6/20/02)

Update: My Dad worked at the Evergreen when he was a kid, and when he returned to Ishpeming years later he and Mom took a few photos of the drive-in, which was abandoned years ago. Appropriately, there are now evergreen trees growing wild among the ramps. Its amazing that they had drive-ins at all as far north as this; the summers are short and it gets dark very late during drive-in season. These photos were taken around 1995 or 96; the folks report that a year or two later they returned and found that the Evergreen had finally been demolished. (Darren Snow 1/6/03)

Update: Closed prior to 1985. (Michigandriveins.com 6/9/03)

Update: The Evergreen Drive-In was about 5 miles West of Ishpeming about 1 mile West of De Rochas Club 41 Steakhouse. All that is left there is a fence and remnants of a mobile home. The owners name was Keskatalo (kes ca talo) and toward the end of his ownership he showed only x-rated films as the back of the screen was toward the highway and nobody lived where they could see the screen. The Evergreen was the first drive-in in Marquette Co and was still open after the Airport Drive in closed. If you attended the drive in during the X rated movie days it was all pickup trucks, one person in each truck and a few beer cans on the ground around the trucks as a lot of construction was going on in Marquette co at the time. The only X rated film shown at the Hiawatha Drive-In was Alan Funts "What do you say to a naked lady?" This movie today would be PG-13.
(Chuck/Waterwinterwonderland.com 4/2/05)

Update: The Evergreen DIT existed from 6/29/1950 to 8/31/1986. It went XXX in 1972 until it closed. (Andrew the Librarian 12/15/06)

Update: I remember going to the Evergreen in the 70''s when it was the XXX rated films. What a Hoot!!! Mostly just carloads of single guys with lots of beer, or flyboys with their dates. If the film broke, the drive-in voice would say to the honkling horns "STOP HONKING! iT ISN''T GOING TO BE FIXED UNTIL THE HONKING STOPS!" which would cause 10 times as much honking as there was before. We would go to softball tournaments in Champion and drive in the exit on the way back to Marquette in our uniforms. My buddy lost his wallet one night, called them the next day, and they went out to where we parked and found it. So that night, on our way back from the games, we drove back through the exit again to get the wallet. What a great place!!! (Kink/Waterwinterwonderland.com 1/8/08)

Update: The Evergreen Drive-In snack bar building appears to remain standing in a recent Google Aerial Image. (Michigandriveins.com 5/17/09>