Rietta Drive-In
Henryetta,
OK
74437
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The Rietta Drive-In was a small town operation with only a 200 car capacity, but the screen was of good size. In appearance this was a rather plain facility.
Outdoor theatres cannot operate until after dark and at this cinema vast quantities of flashing lightning bugs were a distraction to patrons trying to watch a movie.
Whether fire flies caused an early demise of this drive-in is no longer known, but this facility shuttered before the mid-1960’s.
You comments on the Rietta will be welcome here. (Henryetta was home town to famed actress Alice Ghostley)
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Cactus Jack
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Three celebraties grew up in this small town,
Alice Ghostley, famed actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Ghostley
Troy Aikman, football great,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Aikman
Jim Shoulders, world famous rodeo cowyboy,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Shoulders
Approx. address for this drive-in was 10029 Old US Highway 62. Now Huckleberry’s Pig Out Palace!!!