Broadway Drive-In
4200 South Broadway,
St. Louis,
MO
63118
4200 South Broadway,
St. Louis,
MO
63118
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There are still some stores there, Family Dollar, Subway, Radio Shack, Hardees, etc. The Hollywood/Blockbuster video is out of business. Also a new O'Reilly’s Auto Parts has just been built close to the Big Lots building, which is still unoccupied.
The only part of the Thunderbird that was in the city limits was the entrance. The drive in itself was behind Katz Drug and the Roller Rink which was in Pine Lawn. The street leading to the entrance of the Tunderbird was on Natural Bridge two blocks west of Goodfellow.
Some corrections are needed:
1) The Broadway Drive-In was not the only ozoner within the St. Louis city limits. The THUNDERBIRD, at Natural Bridge and Goodfellow, also qualifies.
2) The Broadway was not built by Mid-America. The venue, which opened in May 1954, was a Ray Parker operation. Parker, then mayor of the suburb of Brentwood, also was involved with the Skyline Drive-In in Bridgeton.
3) The Broadway was always the Broadway. It was never known as the Holiday, which was an operation in the county on Page (and a Mid-America operation).
Place was built in the mid 50’s and was originally called the Holiday drive in. Owned by the mid-america theatre chain, Louis and Jules Jablanow.
The place opened in the mid 50’s and was owned and opereated by the mid-america threatre chain. Louis and Jules Jablanow