Skyline Drive-In
3909 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
Tulsa,
OK
74106
3909 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
Tulsa,
OK
74106
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Previously operated by: Griffith Amusement Company, Video Independent Theaters Inc.
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The Skyline Drive-In was one of the first drive-ins to be built in Tulsa. It opened on April 23, 1948 with Fred MacMurray in “Smokey”. It was a single screen theatre with a 600 car capacity. It was operated by Griffiths Theatres. By 1955 it was operated by Video Independent Theaters Inc. The Skyline Drive-In closed in 1970.
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The street photo is way off for the Skyline Theater. It’s basically located at 3909 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd on the west side of the road. It was completely torn down and is now overgrown with trees and brush.
Here is an aerial photo I found of the Skyline dated 1954. http://tinyurl.com/mewas5h
You can see what’s left of the Skyline Drive-In at 3909 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Tulsa, OK. The land itself is empty save for a cellphone tower. The old entrance road is just to the south of the trail leading to the tower and the remaining rocks and debris mark the outline of the drive-in. http://tinyurl.com/pngo3vv
The drive-in location offered a spectacular view of downtown Tulsa, but it closed in 1970 due in part to the fact that it was well away from where the city was growing. The Apache, Airview, and 11th Street drive-ins lasted into the early 1980s and the Admiral Twin is still around today.
There’s a nice aerial photo at the Tulsa Historical Society, although it inaccurately captions that the Skyline opened in 1956. Actually, it was included in the Theatre Catalog’s first drive-in list in the 1948-49 edition. The exec at the time was Henry Gritting of Griffith Theatres.
Opened on 20/4/1951 with 2 cartoons(Plutos heart throb, the other cartoon name is unreadable), and “Vengeance Valley”. The site is now Crown Auto World.
Crown Auto World is in Bristow, not Tulsa.
As the address indicates, the area is empty save for a cell phone tower that stands about where the concession stand/projection booth was located.
Apart from faint hints of the entrance and exit roads, there is no trace of the drive-in remaining.
The Skyline Drive-In opened on April 23rd, 1948.
Listings ended in 1970.
You can see the Skyline Drive-In open in a 1967 aerial. By 1980, it had been completely demolished. Only the ramps and outline remained at that time.
Today, even that is gone with only a faint hint of the entrance and exit roads remaining.