Status: The Lakeshore Drive-In in Port Huron (actually Fort Gratiot Twp.) is now a driving range and putt-putt golf. I'm not sure if either are in use as they look pretty rough (no pun intended). My father-in-law lives across Lakeshore Road from the site, and remembers the DI quite well. Not sure on the date it was torn down. (Garrett Jamieson 1/23/03)

Update: It had one screen. They tore it down in 1986 to build a strip mall which was finally built in 1990 three miles south of there. It currently sits as an empty lot for sale as possible commercial property. (G-Man 9/5/03)

Update: According to Port Huron library newspaper microfilm, the Lakeshore was still there in October, 1986, showing movies on weekends only. As of July, 1987, it was gone. (Waterwinterwonderland.com 9/11/04)

Update: It was torn down on June 4, 1987. The lot has stood vacant and for sale until the end of March, 2005 when it was finally sold. It was a typical askewly perverted Drive-in, while other theaters were showing "Rocky" and "Saturday Night Fever", this one showed Disney movies for the kiddies and classic pornography films abruptly after such as "Naughty School Girls" for their fathers who had custody of the now sleeping children for that weekend. Oh, the wonders of American Society. (Waterwinterwonderland.com/Joseph Barron 4/15/05)

In the 60s, my parents owned the grocery store just to the north of the drive in, on the other side of the Putt Putt. It was a great place to grow up, there was the store, the Putt Putt, occassionally the restaurant was open, the golf course, the drive in and a gas station. There was also Mil & Mels gift shop a little further south. I remember watching The Planet of the Apes, True Grit, Kellys Heroes... Elvis and The Trouble With Girls, and, of course, the 4th of July fireworks, every year... not the biggest show, but, always fun! (Waterwinterwonderland.com/Chris Harder 6/12/06)

Update: Approximately 50% of the empty lot of the former Lakeshore Drive In was purchased in 2005. That section was cleared of 19 years of plant growth, and another Blue Water area old-age assisted-living nursing home was built on it. It is called "Regency on the Lake" and it occupys the south section of the lot. The north section of the lot is still empty and covered with plant life, while the lot to the north of that which once held the ice cream parlor and putt-putt golf course previously spoken of was torn down in 2006 to some day house condos. (Waterwinterwonderland.com/R.M. Glowczewski 1/6/08)