Airview Drive-In

7500 E. Pine Street,
Tulsa, OK 74101

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Kenmore
Kenmore on July 7, 2023 at 5:24 pm

The faint outline of the entrance drive is now gone. The only remnant left is the ramps from Pine Street which indicated where the entrance and exit roads were located.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on September 30, 2021 at 4:21 pm

A photo caption at the Oklahoma Historical Society, from the Griffith-Video Independent Theatres Collection, reads, “Photograph of the sign for the Airview Drive In, opened 1951, closed September 10, 1981, Tulsa, OK.” They got the opening date right, and that closing date had to come from somewhere. Then again, that was a Thursday, which would have been an odd day to close. Maybe the Airview closed on Labor Day 1981 (Sept. 7) and didn’t reopen the following Friday? Who knows?

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on June 7, 2019 at 7:28 am

Closed at the end of the 1982 season or june 1983. The site is now a DHS facilty for children awaiting placement for foster care.

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on June 7, 2019 at 7:23 am

Opened on 7/6/1951 with “Double crossbones”.

Kenmore
Kenmore on June 14, 2013 at 6:52 pm

The property is now the home of a DHS facility.

http://tinyurl.com/k5klae6

…only the faint outline of the entrance drive can still be seen.

seymourcox
seymourcox on July 25, 2010 at 2:43 pm

This link has recent photos showing the Airview property now overgrown with wild bluebells,
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/194

TLSLOEWS
TLSLOEWS on March 21, 2010 at 7:46 pm

Cool looking screen tower.

seymourcox
seymourcox on October 10, 2009 at 4:01 pm

This web site is devoted the Airview Drive-IN …
http://tulsatvmemories.com/airview.html

raybradley
raybradley on August 30, 2007 at 12:01 am

Other vintage photos of this drive-in can be seen by typing in word “airview”,
View link

jchapman1
jchapman1 on June 14, 2007 at 12:42 am

Courtesy of Tulsa Library comes this vintage image of the Airview Drive-In Theatre screen tower, and Story Book Lane -
http://www.tulsalibrary.org/JPG/D4039.jpg

Patsy
Patsy on August 13, 2006 at 9:13 am

Red Dawg: And the “tulsatvmemories” link really has alot of drive-in trivia, but the aerial 1940’s aerial photo is really the best!

Patsy
Patsy on August 13, 2006 at 9:10 am

The “losttulsa” link is fascinating and especially when I scrolled down far enough and found the Price Tower built by Frank Lloyd Wright article with photo. I have sent it to a fellow FLW fan as I know he will appreciate it.

raybradley
raybradley on August 13, 2006 at 9:00 am

This web site contains complete history and photos of every drive-in theatre that ever existed in Tulsa,
http://tulsatvmemories.com/aida.html

xxx
xxx on July 2, 2006 at 12:29 pm

Near the bottome of these web pages can be seen a color photo of the Tulsa’s Airview Drive-In Theatre;
http://www.losttulsa.com/

xxx
xxx on October 22, 2005 at 12:04 pm

Vintage photos of the Airview Drive-In can be found here;
http://tulsatvmemories.com
and
View link

xxx
xxx on June 18, 2005 at 2:22 pm

Last January I bought a 2005 calendar with a wonderful antique photograph of the AIRVIEW Drive-In, along with views of other early day Tulsa movie houses. It’s entitiled ‘Tulsa, See-Ya at the Movies’. Don’t know if its still available, but this calendar was published by a Tulsa company called Yellow Pad Inc.