Neighborhoods: Englewood

[Mike D]

A couple of little things.  I'm pretty sure the restaurant that later became the furniture store was Valle's Steakhouse (no double-e on the end).  It was a national chain at the time...at least I know I saw a Valle's in upstate NY that looked identical, so if it wasn't a chain there were at least two of them.  Also, wasn't the drive-in at University and Philips the Southside Drive-in? Someone called it the University Drive-in, but that one was in Arlington on the other end of University past JU.  The Southside, like the old drive-in at Jacksonville Beach, consisted of a tall (maybe five or six stories high?) triangle shaped building...the screen was on the window-less side facing the parking area.  The other two sides of the building had windows.  I don't know what was in there...offices, I guess, for the people who ran the place.  I went there a few times, but preferred the Atlantic drive-in on Atlantic Blvd or the Midway drive-in on Beach Blvd, both of which seemed to show triple-feature horror movies more frequently...my movies of choice if we could talk our parents into taking us! 

[Debbie Thompson]

There was a drive-in theatre at University and Philips in the mid-60's.  It was open when we moved here in 1966.  I think it closed sometime soon after in the mid to late 1960's.  I think it was called Southside Drive In.  Because wasn't University Blvd. called Love Grove Road until some time in the 1960's when they widened it down into Arlington?  That was before we moved here, but someone told me that.

[billy]

I went to the drive-in as a child. There was a playground in font of the screen. As someone very young and naive I thought that the actors went inside the building to act out the films. As a teen (I had figured things out by then), I saw Night of the Living Dead and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at the Southside.

[BIG CHEESE 723]

Debbie, the problem with being new to MJ is I am trying to read all the old things, too.
I missed being in the Englewood section of town by thissss much.  I was 2 streets north of Emerson St.
We used to enter Gallion Rd. off Emerson to reach our house on Taylor.   When thy built the expressway Gallion  no longer existed except one house.  Gallion became the on ramp to downtown.  Had I lived south of Emerson I would have went to Englewood High instead of continuing at Landon.