Sheridan Drive-In
4700 S. Sheridan Road,
Tulsa,
OK
74145
4700 S. Sheridan Road,
Tulsa,
OK
74145
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Grand opening ceremonies were held April 20, 1951, for the lovely landscaped Sheridan Drive-In. The opening movie was Burt Lancaster in “Vengeance Valley” By booking G-rated double features, adding extra short subjects, and offering a free kiddie carnival beneath the screen tower the Sheridan Drive-In attracted family trade. It was closed in 1964.
No trace of this drive-in remains today.
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Mrs. Settinhen
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Other shots can be seen on this site, type in word ‘sheridan’,
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Sheridan Drive-In web page …
http://tulsatvmemories.com/sheridrv.html
Okay, Mrs. Settinhen here is someinfo on the SHERIDAN DRIVE-in. It parked 570 cars the owner was Video{ which owned a couple of drive-ins in that city.]
Nice photos Cosmic Ray I noticed in the opening ad it said across the street from Browns Airport.
Above address is incorrect. Approx. address for this drive-in was 2 blocks south @ 4700 block.
I saw “South Pacific” and “Ben-Hur” here when I was a kid.
Motion Picture Almanac drive-in theater list mentions:
But in the Motion Picture Almanac’s circuit list, the Video Independent Theatres chain included the Sheridan through the 1964 edition. In 1965, Video’s entry didn’t mention the Sheridan. No idea where the drive-in list people got that “Metropolitan Theas.”
In the 2021 historic picture book Tulsa Movie Theaters, the authors wrote: “The Sheridan Drive-In … operated until 1963 at 4500 South Sheridan Road.”
The Sheridan Drive In was the first in the Tulsa area to close I believe. Development along Sheridan was exploding in the 1960s and a housing edition took over the property by 1967.