Star Drive-In

600 E. Miami Road,
Montrose, CO 81401

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MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on July 27, 2020 at 8:20 am

On July 31, 2009, Grand Junction’s Daily Sentinel (probably quoting Star owner Pamela Friend) wrote that the Star opened on April 19, 1950, showing “The Younger Brothers”. After all this time, I forgot or didn’t notice that it also quoted me as saying, “Everyone needs to experience the drive-in at least once in their life.”

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on September 12, 2019 at 1:50 pm

The 1950 Film Daily Year Book, published early in the year, listed the Skylite Drive-In under Montrose. It also listed a Skylite under Delta (~30 minutes away), so maybe someone there was confused.

The 1951 edition listed both the Star and the Skylite. Hmm.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on August 11, 2019 at 5:00 pm

Fun little note from the March 21, 1960 issue of BoxOffice: “George DeVries of Montrose has postponed the opening of his Star Drive-In — snow is so deep that four-wheel drive vehicles are unable to enter the airer.”

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on June 1, 2019 at 2:32 pm

Opening note from the May 20, 1950 issue of BoxOffice:

MONTROSE, COLO. – The new 360-car Star Drive-In near here recently was opened by Harry Barrett and George De Vries. Seats for walk-in patrons yet remain to be installed before the new open air theatre is completed.

Drive-In 54
Drive-In 54 on June 15, 2014 at 3:44 pm

Uploaded some pictures from there FB page.