Photos favorited by davidcoppock

  • <p>It’s October 7, 1963 and this could be the first day of operation for the Big See Drive-In which advertises from this day until its closure.</p>
  • <p>Wade Enterprises opened this as the Cecil Drive-In Theatre on July 11, 1950 with Esther Williams in “"On an Island With You.”</p>
  • <p>2005 Photo showing the site before Oasis Mobile Homes moved in and added buildings. As of December 2018, all the buildings in this photo including the screen still remain on the site.</p>
  • <p>2001 photo</p>
  • <p>2006 photo</p>
  • <p>2005 photo</p>
  • <p>2010 photo</p>
  • <p>This July 13, 1950 ad, the first mention I could find of the “Sky Vu”, has a description of the drive-in that isn’t repeated in its future ads in the weekly Elizabethville Echo. It’s possible that the drive-in opened a few days earlier or that this was the first time it thought to advertise in a town 10 miles away, but this strongly suggests that the Sky Vu opened in July 1950.</p> <p>I have no copyright interest in this advertisement, and its bare copy is unlikely to have been renewed, but don’t take my word for it. I have uploaded it here for the scholarly fair use of attempting to establish the (otherwise unknown?) opening date for this drive-in.</p>
  • <p>Boxoffice, 6/12/72.</p>
  • <p>Boxoffice, 6/12/72.</p>
  • <p>From the February 7th, 1977 issue of Boxoffice Magazine</p>
  • <p>Photo Source: David Kilderry</p>
  • <p>Photo credit: Bruce Richmond</p>
  • <p>Photo credit: SA Theatre’s and drive-in’s</p>
  • <p>Century 21 grand opening newspaper advertisement, San Jose Mercury News, November 1964</p>
  • <p>March 15th, 1940</p>
  • <p>“Columbus Dispatch,” Wednesday, June 18, 1952</p>
  • <p>Source: The Columbus Dispatch June 19, 1998</p>
  • <p>1964 Flyer also listing the other Drive-in,“Toms River”,in the Walter Reade-Sterling Theatre chain.</p>
  • <p>The auditorium</p>
  • <p>October 23rd, 1955</p>
  • <p>September 2nd, 1955</p>
  • <p>1950 ad for the Starlite then in Dragerton prior to the town’s merger</p>
  • <p>March 20th, 1959</p>
  • <p>March 25th, 1949</p>