Here’s one more thing your kids won’t experience: drive-in movies. That’s one more for the list, right after cassette tapes and the Reagan administration.
Puget Park Drive-In, Snohomish County’s last drive-in theater, has seen its last show. The theater was shuttered in the fall after almost 40 years. Now, my colleague Sharon Salyer reports Swedish Health Services will build an emergency room on the drive-in site.
Swedish Health Services plans to build a new emergency room on the site of the Puget Park Drive-In theater. (Dan Bates / The Herald)
Regulars are lamenting the loss, according to this story.
“There’s something to be said for that experience, sitting outside and listening (to the movie) through a fuzzy speaker,” said one Puget Park fan.
But at the bottom line, there’s money. The president of Sterling Realty Organization Co., which owned Puget Park until recently, said drive-ins are closing because they take up a lot of land and need a lot of customers to stay profitable.
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