Starlight Drive-In
Summerside,
PE
C1N
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The Starlight Drive-In had capacity for about 200 cars. It opened by 1952.
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Ken McIntyre
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this place has been demolished, all the equipment and two rusty cars a 1962 Corvair and a 1967 dodge dart has been pushed behind the screen. The foundation for the screen is still there, there is a small room in the foundation that still exists, the screen is gone and the field is completely grown over. They used a RCA sound system and before they closed they were transmitting on the radio and had done away with the drive-in speakers. They were using carbon arc projectors right up until they closed. The lot of land that the drive in was on will be a suburb by 2014.
The life of this drive was 1965 to 1982 roughly.
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the regent, the captiol, the mack are 3 other theaters that were open
in pei only the mack is still open
Billboard, Sept. 13, 1952: “L. W. Ellis, of Summerside, P. E. I., is owner-manager of the Starlite Drive-In near Summerside. Spot was started by R. Pope and Ellis.”