Sky-Vue Drive-In
2855 Park Avenue,
Memphis,
TN
38016
2855 Park Avenue,
Memphis,
TN
38016
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Located in Midtown in the Orange Mound neighborhood of Memphis. The Sky-Vue Drive-In opened in June 1949. It had a capacity for 750 cars, and apparently there was a heavy walk-in patronage, as 700 seats were provided in front of the screen. There was concession stand in the base of the screen, as well as one in the centre of the lot. Another facility was a playground.
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Ken Roe
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Ken, I have Harold Roth owning this Drive-in in the late fifties.
Do you know about where this was located? (Which “main highway” ?)
The original operator at opening was H.H. Roth of the Sky-Vue Theatre Corp. Hoping someone local will know which ‘main highway’ it was located on.
It was later operated by Dave Lebovitz along with three indoor and two other drive-in theatres. All served the “colored” community.
Park Avenue has no highway number although it is an important thorofare. It begins at a fork from Lamar Ave. and veers in another direction. The fork is near South Parkway and Park Avenue stretches from midtown Memphis to the border of Germantown at which time it changes its name to Poplar Pike and continues east for a long way thereafter.
Some sources indicate that it also operated under the name Skyline Drive-In.