Starlite Drive-In
1124 Edgewater Drive,
Pekin,
IL
61554
1124 Edgewater Drive,
Pekin,
IL
61554
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This was a drive-in with a single screen that showed double feature movies. The main movie was always shown first at dusk, a B-movie would be shown as the late movie and would start around 11:15pm. They had one building that was the concession stand. They served great BBQ, hot dogs, burgers and pizza.
The drive-in was destroyed in a fire in 1990. The Showplace 12 multi-screen theatre now resides where the Starlite Drive-In used to be. This new theatre opened up around 2000 or 2001.
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Jim Gentry
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I believe this venue opened around 1950. Around 1990, a fire destroyed most of the concession building. The rest of the property bulldozed a few years later.
This burned down around 1990 during winter. A man broke into the concession stand and started a fire to keep warm.
My wife and I would go to the Starlite when our son was just a baby. The Starlite was the last drive-in in the Peoria area and if we couldn’t get a babysitter we could take our son and he would fall asleep by the time the movie would start.
1999 and 2010 aerial pictures added