The Finger Lakes Drive-In opened for the season Friday night. Movie fans had to use a newly opened entrance to the Aurelius drive-in, about 50 feet away from the previous one, due to an ongoing blockade by the Cayuga Nation.
The nation’s leadership council, which purchased the property west of the drive-in in January 2023, and put concrete blocks in its driveway. That, along with several of the theater’s parking spots and a third of its screen, are located on the neighboring property. The nation says a lease drive-in owner Paul Meyer used to access the property is “invalid and unenforceable.”
The drive-in has operated for 77-years.
You can watch ta double feature tonight and Sunday. The drive-in is show “If” and “Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes.”
All Photos by Greg Cotterill, Finger Lakes Daily News
