The Dead Drive-In LbNA #5625 (ARCHIVED)
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Sep 10, 2003 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Dennis |
| County: | Barnstable |
| State: | Massachusetts |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Chunna  |
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| Found by: | boodles |
| Last found: | Apr 16, 2011 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFaaar |
| Last edited: | Sep 10, 2003 |
The Dennis Drive-In-Fly-In Movie Theater Letterbox
Planted By The HeadLess Hunter
September 10th 2003
Note about the Drive In: This area is what is left of the old Dennis Drive In Fly In. Opening in 1949, it was a huge tourist attraction in the town of Dennis, located on Hokum Rock Road in East Dennis. It was open for 30 some odd seasons. (A full story of the Drive in and how it got its name is located in the box on the wood backing of the carved stamp. It's very interesting!
All that you can find of the theater now however, are the occasional iron poles that once held the marquee speakers jutting out of the broken asphalt, broken bits of the rotting wood from the refreshment stand, and in the back, the cement footings where the screen was once anchored.(it was removed in 1987.)
Coming from the Mid-Cape Highway...
Take exit 9B into Dennis and follow Rt. 134 along past two sets of lights (the second light being at Setucket Rd.) and you will eventually come to Hokum Rock Rd. on your left (there is an island in the middle of the road with signage for various places in east Dennis...)
Coming from 6A...
Turn up 134 at the intersection with 6A at the set of lights near the Dennis Players Shopping Plaza. Follow along for just a while until you find Hokum Rock Rd. on your right.
Note that Hokum Rock Rd can be reached also via Olde Bass River Road heading towards 6A.
Directions to the Dennis Drive-In-Fly-In Letterbox...
Once traveling down Hokum Rock Road, look for The Fitness Connection on your left (It's not too far down the road after you get off of 134.) Directly across the street from the Fitness Connection is what remains of the Dennis Drive In Fly In Theater. There is a small area to park diagonally across from the Fitness Connection. Your journey back to the heyday of Drive-in Theaters during the 1950's begins here!
Because there are many different twisting "paths" to get to the box, pick whatever path you would like. They may lead you over dirt hills, past boulders, through scrub pines, but eventually will all dump you out in a back broken asphalt road which was where the screen was located. Once at the asphalt "road", (you should be able to see some warehouses through some trees separating the Drive in lot with these houses), turn to your left and walk down it until you come to a bend leading you back in the direction you came along side the lot. (I think you can follow this bend back to the front of the lot)
25 steps from the start of this bend, you should see a house to your right with a couple of boulders on the side of the path. At 150 steps roughly, look to your right to see if you can spy what is left of the children’s playground. (Maybe you have been to the Wellfleet Drive In Theater and seen how it is set up with a playground for the kids) You will notice the ruins of a kiddy’s round-a-bout. It's a pole that has now fallen horizontal to the ground with its cement anchor exposed, facing the trail you are on. A scrub pine grows up in the middle of it and the circular wooden planks that still have the orange paint on them lie partially broken; some still attached by iron rods at the top of the pole. (You may notice a cupped metal piece with some red paint on it suspended by the iron arms still attached to the wooden planks that once encircled the pole.) I imagine that on top of the pole the metal cup balanced with the iron poles reaching around connected to a circular series of wooden planks, and when given enough "oomph" the round-a-bout would turn.
The letterbox can be found on the left side of the cement anchor of the round-a-bout facing you, under some pine needles and chunks of cement. Don’t forget to read the history of the Drive In on the front of the stamp!
For questions or comments regarding this box, you can reach me via email at : WillHop25@comcast.net
Happy Hunting!
-WjH-
Planted By The HeadLess Hunter
September 10th 2003
Note about the Drive In: This area is what is left of the old Dennis Drive In Fly In. Opening in 1949, it was a huge tourist attraction in the town of Dennis, located on Hokum Rock Road in East Dennis. It was open for 30 some odd seasons. (A full story of the Drive in and how it got its name is located in the box on the wood backing of the carved stamp. It's very interesting!
All that you can find of the theater now however, are the occasional iron poles that once held the marquee speakers jutting out of the broken asphalt, broken bits of the rotting wood from the refreshment stand, and in the back, the cement footings where the screen was once anchored.(it was removed in 1987.)
Coming from the Mid-Cape Highway...
Take exit 9B into Dennis and follow Rt. 134 along past two sets of lights (the second light being at Setucket Rd.) and you will eventually come to Hokum Rock Rd. on your left (there is an island in the middle of the road with signage for various places in east Dennis...)
Coming from 6A...
Turn up 134 at the intersection with 6A at the set of lights near the Dennis Players Shopping Plaza. Follow along for just a while until you find Hokum Rock Rd. on your right.
Note that Hokum Rock Rd can be reached also via Olde Bass River Road heading towards 6A.
Directions to the Dennis Drive-In-Fly-In Letterbox...
Once traveling down Hokum Rock Road, look for The Fitness Connection on your left (It's not too far down the road after you get off of 134.) Directly across the street from the Fitness Connection is what remains of the Dennis Drive In Fly In Theater. There is a small area to park diagonally across from the Fitness Connection. Your journey back to the heyday of Drive-in Theaters during the 1950's begins here!
Because there are many different twisting "paths" to get to the box, pick whatever path you would like. They may lead you over dirt hills, past boulders, through scrub pines, but eventually will all dump you out in a back broken asphalt road which was where the screen was located. Once at the asphalt "road", (you should be able to see some warehouses through some trees separating the Drive in lot with these houses), turn to your left and walk down it until you come to a bend leading you back in the direction you came along side the lot. (I think you can follow this bend back to the front of the lot)
25 steps from the start of this bend, you should see a house to your right with a couple of boulders on the side of the path. At 150 steps roughly, look to your right to see if you can spy what is left of the children’s playground. (Maybe you have been to the Wellfleet Drive In Theater and seen how it is set up with a playground for the kids) You will notice the ruins of a kiddy’s round-a-bout. It's a pole that has now fallen horizontal to the ground with its cement anchor exposed, facing the trail you are on. A scrub pine grows up in the middle of it and the circular wooden planks that still have the orange paint on them lie partially broken; some still attached by iron rods at the top of the pole. (You may notice a cupped metal piece with some red paint on it suspended by the iron arms still attached to the wooden planks that once encircled the pole.) I imagine that on top of the pole the metal cup balanced with the iron poles reaching around connected to a circular series of wooden planks, and when given enough "oomph" the round-a-bout would turn.
The letterbox can be found on the left side of the cement anchor of the round-a-bout facing you, under some pine needles and chunks of cement. Don’t forget to read the history of the Drive In on the front of the stamp!
For questions or comments regarding this box, you can reach me via email at : WillHop25@comcast.net
Happy Hunting!
-WjH-