Update: Here are the pictures of the Hiawatha DIT that I found in a 1988 book on Chassell MI, that I found at the Portage Lake District Library in Houghton, MI. The aerial shot is from "the 1980s." It is interesting to note that after the DIT closed the entrance road to 41 was altered back to where the street on the left is. The railroad tracks have also since been removed. The marquee shot was taken in March 1958. The Hiawatha opened on June 13, 1952. It might have closed on September 8, 1986, but I dont have access to the Houghton Daily Mining Gazette film for 1987. No ads appeared in 1988. (Andrew Wilson 4/22/04)

Update: Chassell Township Schools and Chassell Township are trying a new way to get more families to move into the school district. The two entities recently split the cost of a feasibility study for a residential development on 17 acres the district owns adjacent to the school property, part of which was formerly the Hiawatha Drive-In movie theater. (Waterwinterwonderland.com 3/2/07)

Update: They are going to turn it into a subdivision CHASSELL - Chassell Township and Chassell Township Schools are moving forward with an effort to attract more families with students to the area. At this month's Chassell Township meeting, the board approved changing the zoning of 17 acres adjacent to the school and owned by the school district from industrial to residential. The plan is to develop the land, part of which was formerly the Chassell Drive-In movie theater, into residential lots as a joint effort between a developer, the township and the school district, said Chassell Superintendent Mike Gaunt.
(Grant Holmstrom/Waterwinterwonderland.com 4/27/09)