Once again, Google Maps lies. The map at the upper right is incorrect. Their map for the Broadway Drive-In Theater on West Broadway in Columbia was incorrect as well. I have adjusted the street level views for this and the Broadway Drive-In. This one now correctly shows the old entrance to the Sky-Hi. The one lane in/one lane out entrance is used by the landscaping and garden center that occupies the space where the theater was located. The sign shown in the photo by lostmemory (earlier comment above), was located basically where the landscape company sign is shown on Google street level view-right between the two lanes. I was a student at Mizzou in the early 80s and spent many a weekend night here with some good friends and good (smuggled in) beer!
Hmm…I don’t know how the Tiger had a video store in the lobby in the ‘70s when video tape and VCRs as a general rule, were not sold much in this country before the mid-1980s!!!
This theater sat within feet of the Broadway Drive-In Theater, which was originally located just to the right of the Cinema Building. A supermarket is located there now.
I recently updated the street level view to where the theater actually was located (the previous location was about 10 blocks off!). In the center of this view, you will see a drive-in bank. Off in the distance behind this bank, you will see the side of a light tan colored building that is slightly to the left of the bank in the image. That is Gerbes Supermarket and that is where what was left of the theater (the parking spaces and speakers on poles-the screen and buildings had been torn down earlier in the decade) was located when I moved to Columbia in 1979. On a related note, slightly to the left in the image and about 200' closer to us, you will see the white border of the strip mall building located in the foreground of this picture, jutting out at a right angle to the rest of the building. That is the side of the Cinema Theater, documented elsewhere on this website. Yes it’s true! Columbia had a drive-in and an indoor cinema located within 200 feet of one another! Talk about competition! Nevertheless, an interesting tidbit.
Once again, Google Maps lies. The map at the upper right is incorrect. Their map for the Broadway Drive-In Theater on West Broadway in Columbia was incorrect as well. I have adjusted the street level views for this and the Broadway Drive-In. This one now correctly shows the old entrance to the Sky-Hi. The one lane in/one lane out entrance is used by the landscaping and garden center that occupies the space where the theater was located. The sign shown in the photo by lostmemory (earlier comment above), was located basically where the landscape company sign is shown on Google street level view-right between the two lanes. I was a student at Mizzou in the early 80s and spent many a weekend night here with some good friends and good (smuggled in) beer!
Hmm…I don’t know how the Tiger had a video store in the lobby in the ‘70s when video tape and VCRs as a general rule, were not sold much in this country before the mid-1980s!!!
This theater sat within feet of the Broadway Drive-In Theater, which was originally located just to the right of the Cinema Building. A supermarket is located there now.
I recently updated the street level view to where the theater actually was located (the previous location was about 10 blocks off!). In the center of this view, you will see a drive-in bank. Off in the distance behind this bank, you will see the side of a light tan colored building that is slightly to the left of the bank in the image. That is Gerbes Supermarket and that is where what was left of the theater (the parking spaces and speakers on poles-the screen and buildings had been torn down earlier in the decade) was located when I moved to Columbia in 1979. On a related note, slightly to the left in the image and about 200' closer to us, you will see the white border of the strip mall building located in the foreground of this picture, jutting out at a right angle to the rest of the building. That is the side of the Cinema Theater, documented elsewhere on this website. Yes it’s true! Columbia had a drive-in and an indoor cinema located within 200 feet of one another! Talk about competition! Nevertheless, an interesting tidbit.