News Article: Outdoor theater history will be made here Saturday night with the opening of the Lansing Drive-In theater on highway US-127, south of the city near Jolly road, it was announced Wednesday. There will be two shows nightly, rain or clear. Lawrence Aubry, secretary-treasurer of the corporation, who has supervised building of the Drive-In theater, announced the opening date and he said John Stamler of Detroit will manage the theater. Stamler said the first performance of the new type of entertainment will be at 7:30 o'clock Saturday evening. Opening of the theater brings to the community a form of entertainment proving popular in other Michigan cities, Stamler said. The Drive-In theater will have three shows each Saturday night with the first starting at 8 p.m., the second at 10:30 p.m., and a gala Midnight show, he said. The opening show will present Gene Autry in "Bells of San Angelo", and a comedy-color cartoon and a first run newsreel, Stamler said. There will be a new show Sunday and Monday. Work has been rushed recently to make possible the opening Saturday of the 800 to 1,000-car drive-in theater, Aubry reported. There will be an individual "in-a-car" speakers and a towering screen on which the scenes will be projected, making it easy for car occupants to see, Stamler said. (The State Journal 5/27/48)

News Article: Pearce Parkhurst, formerly well known in Michigan as manager of the Lansing Drive-In at Lansing, has returned to the area to assume general management of the Joseph Ellul circuit, with headquarters at the downtown Family Theatre in Detroit. Much of his attention will be centered on the Mount Clemens Drive-In. Parkhurst, who won a reputation for his exploitation activity during his stay at Lansing, for the past two years has been advertising director for Chakeres Theatres, a circuit of about 40 theatres centered at Springfield, Ohio. (Boxoffice Magazine 8/3/64)

Status: Gone, site is now an Ingham Co. office bldg. (Michigandriveins.com 8/8/03)