Skyway Drive-In
11945 N. Florida Avenue,
Tampa,
FL
33612
11945 N. Florida Avenue,
Tampa,
FL
33612
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The Skyway Drive-In was operating by 1955. It was demolished and replaced by Bill Currie Ford by the mid-1980’s.
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Thanks Nick,and Mike.
Dean Martin in “WHO’S GOT THE ACTION” and “FIVE BRANDED WOMEN” playing Sunday night April 7 1963.Admission was 35 cents,one of the cheaper Drive-ins in Tampa.
Thanks Mike. Here’s an aerial from 1957:
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And here’s a current aerial of the lot as it looks today. A new car dealership replaced the Skyway and today that dealership is history. I say bring back the Skyway!
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Thankd Nick.
Yeah,me too,Thanks Nick.
A great handbill from the early 1950s – thanks for posting!
I had quite a few And like a dummy threw them away.I know Nick has a Few.
I had quite a few And like a dummy threw them away.I know Nick has a Few.
My father. W. G. “Mike” Carmichael, was in the movie business from 1921 till his death in 1967, and J. C. “Cass” Carscallen and his wife, Cody, were family friends. Cass Carscallen was born a British subject in Canada, and he and my father worked together in the movie business during the golden decades of Hollywood. Our family visited the Skyway on several occasions from the late 1950s until the mid-60s. The Carscallens lived in a very smart modern apartment build beneath the screen of the Skyway – an architectural delight that we thought amazingly modern and chic in those days. Their business thrived quite successfully, and they retired to Windsor, Ontario.