Nevada Drive-In
North Las Vegas, Nevada1955-1980s
Browse Nevada Drive-In tees, long sleeve tees and hoodies. It opened in September 1955 on the Salt Lake Highway in North Las Vegas with speakers for all 1,250 spaces, and its opening ad credited a local firm with all the neon. A night photo shows Nevada in tall script with Drive In Theatre below it. Pick a style below, then read the full Nevada history further down. We are an American small business bringing back the signs and logos of places and teams that are long gone but remembered fondly.
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Nevada Drive-In History
The Nevada Drive-In in North Las Vegas, Nevada, opened in the first days of September 1955, and its opening ad called people to a show on Saturday, September 3, with The Kentuckian. It stood on the Salt Lake Highway at Nellis Boulevard, now Las Vegas Boulevard North, and it held 1,250 cars. Bernie Leavitt, Sam Decker and Woody Wickersham, who built drive-ins for a living, had started it a year earlier.
The opening ad offered a children's playground, a snack bar and speakers for all 1,250 spaces. It also credited a local firm with all the neon. A night photo shows what they made: Nevada in tall script, with Drive In Theatre below it and a long spray of flowers or stars falling down one side.
The private owners did not keep it long. On October 23, 1955, the Review-Journal reported that Fox West Coast Theatres had taken it over, the chain's first move into Las Vegas. Mann Theatres ran it in the 1970s.
Sources disagree on the end. One researcher found no newspaper listings after 1980, and Cinema Treasures gives that year. The Review-Journal has since written that the movies seem to have stopped in November 1985. Drive-ins.com lists vehicle storage on the site.