Westport Drive-In
401 S. West Street,
Wichita,
KS
67202
401 S. West Street,
Wichita,
KS
67202
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The Westport Drive-In was opened on June 26, 1953. It was still open in May 1974.
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This arousing web site list the Westport, and outlines histories along with posted photos of hundreds of historic Kansas theatres,
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Playing May 15 1974 is “ANGELS WILD WOMEN”,“NAUGHTY STEWARDESSES” and “WOMEN FOR SALE”.
I remember the Westport mainly for having, in my opinion, the best playground area of all the drive-ins. They had a wooden bridge that was fun to play on.
The Westport opened on June 26, 1953. It’s first showings were “Roseanna McCoy”, starring Farley Granger, and “Rocky Mountain”, starring Errol Flynn.
I uploaded the Westport DI aerial from Facebook. Alot people here are not FB users.
I just uploaded 2 photos of the very first drive in speaker style used at the Westport Drive in Theater…Awesome!!! enjoy…
I worked at Westport,and was asst. manager for awhile, 1966-1968 under Mr. Gary. Made good friends.
This drive-in was one-half mile from my house growing up, and directly across the street from my elementary school. My Dad helped build it, and for years we received an annual ‘Courtesy Card’ for admission at 15-cents per carload. After a few years it went up to 25-cents. As you can imagine, for that price we went there often. One thing I remember about the playground was the lightpole would give a medium-sized electrical shock when you grabbed it. Good times!!
A couple of names, from the Jan. 11, 1960 issue of BoxOffice: “Kansas exhibitors seen on (Film) Row early last week included Al McClure and Woody Barritt of the Westport Drive-In, Wichita.”