Starlite Drive-In
59 Green Mountain Road E.,
Stoney Creek,
ON
L8J 2W4
59 Green Mountain Road E.,
Stoney Creek,
ON
L8J 2W4
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Additional Info
Operated by: Premiere Theatres Canada
Functions: Movies (First Run)
Previous Names: Scenic Drive-In
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
904.662.4800
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Located in Stoney Creek, east of Hamilton, ON. The Scenic Drive-in opened on May 20 1955 with Tyrone Power in “King of the Kyber Rifles”. Inter-City Drive-In operated this drive-in, which has space for 425 cars. It was renamed Starlight Drive-In on May 6. 1960. It is still going strong today having two more screens added in 2007. It is open in the spring, summer & fall. By 2017 it had been taken over by Premier Theatres.
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Recent comments (view all 13 comments)
Thanks Drive-in Girl and Starlite Drive-in.
51 years old and still going, great!
Thanks for the Happy Baby note. The video’s available on YouTube.
The 1959 IMPA shows the Scenic in Hamilton, owned by A. Rosenberg (who also owned a few others), capacity 500.
The 1963 IMPA shows it owned by Joe Dydzak (his family appears to have owned a few others), capacity 400.
I find the 1969 IMPA very confusing. The Scenic (cap. 400) is still in Hamilton, but so is the Starlite (748). Meanwhile, Stoney Creek had added a Starlite (642) of its own.
In the 1972 IMPA, the Scenic is gone, but the Starlite (capacity 642) remains in Stoney Creek.
A short article in The Hamilton Spectator adds just a little help. “Only one (Hamilton area drive-in) remains: the Starlite, on Green Mountain Road in Stoney Creek. It opened in 1955 and was originally named the Scenic Drive-In.”
Box Office magazine from June 18, 1955 reported the Scenic was alive and in a five-theater dogfight for the Hamilton audience. “The Clappison, Hamilton, and Scenic” offered $1 carload pricing M-Th “while the two FPC units, the Skyway and Mohawk,” did it M-W.
now has three screens please update.
Second and 3rd screens opened in 2007. Oldest operating Drive-in in Canada still in operation.
Opened as the Scenic Drive-In on May 20th, 1955. Grand opening ad posted.
Scenic Drive-In opening 20 May 1955, Fri The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Newspapers.com
Reopened as the Starlite Drive-In on May 6th, 1960 by Dydzak Drive-Ins. Grand opening ad posted.
Closed 1986 by Cineplex Odeon, missed out on the 1987 season and reopened on June 10th, 1988 with the projectionist union picketing it.