- July 14, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
PHOTO BY SEAN COLLIER
Two weeks ago, I made the drive to the Winter Drive-In of Wintersville, Ohio. It’s a nice trek from Pittsburgh; you mosey out past Burgettstown to the West Virginia line, skip through the panhandle and cross the Ohio River (for the second time on your journey — it’s a long river). It takes about an hour, and I’ve always found it to be a lovely drive around dusk.
I can’t imagine when I’ll be making that trip again. That trip was to pay my respects during the cinema’s final week of operation. It closed permanently on June 30.
I only began visiting the Winter last year, when the pandemic forced me to look far and wide to find outdoor screens. For many, though, this was the drive-in they grew up attending. Opened as a single-screen drive-in in 1969, the cinema expanded to four screens over the years; while it did have some temporary closures, it had rebounded and converted three of its screens to digital…
