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Published April 26, 2012, 12:00 AM

SLIDESHOW: Cottage View Drive-In opening night 2012

The Cottage View Drive-In in Cottage Grove opened for the year on April 20


Melanie Stoehr of Cottage Grove tosses a Frisbee while she and Dan Lundgren wait for the Cottage View Drive-In’s gates to open Friday night. Stoehr and Lundgren were first in line to get in; it paid off as they parked their truck front and center in the theater lot. Bulletin photo by Scott Wente

  • Melanie Stoehr of Cottage Grove tosses a Frisbee while she and Dan Lundgren wait for the Cottage View Drive-In’s gates to open Friday night. Stoehr and Lundgren were first in line to get in; it paid off as they parked their truck front and center in the theater lot. Bulletin photo by Scott Wente
  • Wyatt Britton and Sarah Armour, both of Cottage Grove, share a chair to watch “The Hunger Games” with friends at the Cottage View Drive-In Friday night. Bulletin photo by Scott Wente
  • James Steffen of Minneapolis has a good view of the drive-in screen as he awaits the start of “The Hunger Games” at Cottage View Drive-In Friday night. Steffen came to the drive-in with his family. Bulletin photo by Scott Wente
  • The lights were on -- well, most of them -- at the Cottage View Drive-In on Friday, April 20, the theater's opening night for 2012. Bulletin photo by Scott Wente
  • Cottage View Drive-In fans waited for sundown Friday, April 20, for the theater's first screening of the year.