Star-Lite Drive-In
1301 East Plant Street,
Winter Garden,
FL
34787
1301 East Plant Street,
Winter Garden,
FL
34787
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The Star-Lite Drive-In was constructed on East Plant Street in Winter Garden, Florida in 1949, and opened the same year. Malon O. Wright was the building contractor and built the screen tower of art deco design. The tower was so 1950s that many thought it must have been designed by the Studebaker automobile engineers! At its height, the Star-Lite contained spaces for 400 cars. Thelbert Peavy managed the theatre for Collie Biggers, and later for Floyd Theatres for over 40 years. The Star-Lite closed in 1996, and was demolished in 1998. On its site presently is a strip shopping center.
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Irv Lipscomb
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Here is a 1988 photo.
I remember my aunt down there told me that it was torn down as you said it’s now a strip mall, same thing as the campground I stayed (probably moved up to Florida State Route 27). When I was a kid, it was still standing.
Gotta love those strip shopping centers, so many drive-in and indoor houses have given way to them. The art deco of the Starlight and many indoors are slowly dwindling way also. This drive-in really had a very impressive front.
Drive-Ins.com has a couple playbills for the Starlite.
http://www.drive-ins.com/pictures/fltstar005.jpg
http://www.drive-ins.com/pictures/fltstar006.jpg
Great ads Chuck.