Sky-Vue Drive-In

There was a two-page article about the new Sky-Vue in the Aug. 6, 1949 issue of BoxOffice. The drive-in cost $300,000 and had a section of 650 seats for walk-in patrons down near the screen. The Sky-Vue was managed by Bob Kilgore.

I used to live on Beverly street right behind the drive in. It was surrounded by vacant fields back then. As kids we would walk thru the fields after dark and crawl under the fence. We’d grab a speaker off the stand and sit on the ground to watch the movie. Never got caught. The entrance was off Park Ave. between Pendleton and Haynes. Played on the playground many times. Later as a teenager, me and my best friend would double date there. That would have been back in 1961-64. Good memories.

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.

Do you know about where this was located? (Which “main highway” ?)