Hilltop Drive-In
4125 Nowata Road,
Bartlesville,
OK
74006
4125 Nowata Road,
Bartlesville,
OK
74006
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Although a new building has covered up part of the ramps on the eastern side, you can still barely make out part of the ramps to the south of the newspaper offices.
I’m curious of the origins to the name “Hilltop” as the ground around the property is rather flat.
aka Hill-Top Drive-In - its most advertised name in the 1950s before becoming the Hilltop Drive-In thereafter.
Boxoffice, Oct. 23, 1948: “BARTLESVILLE, OKLA. – The new Hill Top Drive-In here, a Griffith Bros. showcase located three miles east of the city on the Nowata road, was to be opened October 8. The ozoner accommodates 500 cars and cost an estimated $130,000.”
Approx. address for this drive-in was 4125 Nowata Road. Now the city’s newspaper Examiner-Enterprise’s office. Behind the office, part of the outline though barely visible is still there.
Oklahoma Historical Society has a vintage photo of the “High Tech” engineered Hilltop (misspelled Hilton) Drive-In. To view image type in word “Hilton” View link
This site has sketchy detail of the Hilltop & states the drive-in has been demolished -
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