Remember When HILLSIDE Was The Last Drive-In Standing?

Hillside Drive-In 5210 Marlboro Pike, Coral Hills, Md. (1 mile outside of D.C.) capacity: 715 cars years of operation: 1953-88 currently: demolished in 1998; sold to Maryland National Park and Planning Commission; school and community center planned for land. With its final show — the Chuck Norris actioner Hero and the Terror and the horror B-flick Night of the Demons starring Linnea Quigley — the Hillside brought the curtain down on the Washington drive-in era on November _, 1988. As late as 1993 it still stood, with the lot leased by the state of Maryland as commuter parking, and the … Continue reading Remember When HILLSIDE Was The Last Drive-In Standing?