You may be right. I looked at some other sites, and they had made comments concerning the fact that they could not pin down the location of the 54 in Iola. Additionally you can map 2200th Street to either Gas or Iola.
Going by Cinematour’s information, the Gas theater is the B&B Iola 54 Drive-In on 2200th Street. It was also called the Gas City Drive-In. The other theater, the 54 Drive-In in Iola, is not a B&B theater. The name was probably taken from the fact that the drive-in was on Route 54 in Iola. http://www.cinematour.com/theatres/us/KS/2.html
I think with two different addresses, zip codes and phone numbers, that there is one in Iola and one in Gas City. Coincidentally they’re both called the Iola 54.
Here are some renovation proposals:
http://tinyurl.com/4o35dx
The theater is temporarily closed. No reason given on their website.
For sale on loopnet in September 2008:
http://tinyurl.com/4hd3eu
There is a photo of the theater at the bottom of this page:
http://tinyurl.com/4pddqx
Here is an October 2005 article that discusses renovation after the fire in 2003:
http://tinyurl.com/3ocujp
I don’t know how recent this, but this committee is soliciting donations for renovation of the theater:
http://tinyurl.com/3tntvu
It would be great to see a photo of this drive-in. Please keep us posted.
You may be right. I looked at some other sites, and they had made comments concerning the fact that they could not pin down the location of the 54 in Iola. Additionally you can map 2200th Street to either Gas or Iola.
Going by Cinematour’s information, the Gas theater is the B&B Iola 54 Drive-In on 2200th Street. It was also called the Gas City Drive-In. The other theater, the 54 Drive-In in Iola, is not a B&B theater. The name was probably taken from the fact that the drive-in was on Route 54 in Iola.
http://www.cinematour.com/theatres/us/KS/2.html
I think with two different addresses, zip codes and phone numbers, that there is one in Iola and one in Gas City. Coincidentally they’re both called the Iola 54.
Here are the two listings for the respective drive-ins. Note different addresses and phone numbers:
http://tinyurl.com/3h5bxd
http://tinyurl.com/4tsfs9
It would impact this theater if a new deluxe megaplex were to open next door, so certainly it is worth mentioning here.
It looks like a new theater has opened next to the mall:
http://tinyurl.com/5yz7uk
Here is a 2006 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/3nrt8n
Try this one:
http://tinyurl.com/4e7vvq
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/52pcra
According to this site, the theater was used for opera productions in the late seventies:
http://tinyurl.com/4eew98
Status should be closed/demolished.
Here is the theater website:
http://tinyurl.com/4l4ymt
Not too many single screen small town theaters left. Go while you can.
According to this site, the Chief was used as a church in the early seventies.
http://tinyurl.com/4hplug
Here is a June 2008 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/4z6qah
Some photos here:
http://tinyurl.com/4wvc2w
More info and screen photo here:
http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/sdtmidw
Nice marquee photo here:
http://tinyurl.com/3u44tb