Starvue Drive-In
700 Keith Street SW,
Cleveland,
TN
37311
700 Keith Street SW,
Cleveland,
TN
37311
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The Starvue Drive-In was opened prior to 1955. It had a capacity for 400 cars.
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Ken McIntyre
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Here are some 1986 photos:
http://tinyurl.com/kv7amx
http://tinyurl.com/l93j42
http://tinyurl.com/mbjbm5
Approx. address for this drive-in was 700 Keith St SW, Cleveland, TN 37311.
Cletus Benton owned the theatre. Mr. Benton also owned the Ford dealership in town, and opened the Shoney’s Restaurant in 1971, back when the I-75 ended almost at the theatre. The Starvue’s manager was a wheelchair-bound man who had been injured in a fall from a lift used in painting the screen (a number of other theatre employees died in similar falls during heyday of the drive-in theatre). Seems like his name was Hank, but I’m probably wrong. I believe there may have been a house at the base of the screen. It wasn’t unusual for the manager, or projectionist, or maintenance man and his family to live there.