Meadow Drive-In
Oklahoma 9 and N4400 Road,
Stigler,
OK
74462
Oklahoma 9 and N4400 Road,
Stigler,
OK
74462
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The Meadow Drive-In was opened in 1951 with Mickey Rooney in “All Ashore”. It was operated by Jack Pierce. It was located to the west of town on Highway 9. The screen was burnt down in July 1993.
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Ruth Roye owned the Meadow Drive-In in Stigler during the 1980s.
http://the-haskellok.com/artgallery2/
Drive-ins.com spells it Medow. I imagine there was only one drive-in in Stigler, so it may have had some different spellings.
The Meadow Drive-In tower was not a flimsy display screen, like those of drive-ins that one sometimes sees today. The tower of the Meadow Drive-In was built of concrete blocks and wood; when I stepped inside the tower and looked up, the timbers which formed the interior soared high above me. I dreamed of turning the old tower into an unusual multi-storied residence, but it was not to be. Unfortunately, the substantially built Meadow Drive-In tower burned to the ground sometime during the 1980s or early 1990s. It was uninsured.
Located about 2 miles West of Stigler on HWY 9. You can still see the ramps and foundation of the projection booth. https://goo.gl/maps/sjVLc
A closer address is Oklahoma 9 and N4400 Road, Stigler, OK. The drive-in was located on the NE corner of the intersection.
A 1980 aerial shows the drive-in intact, but by a 1995 aerial, it had been demolished.
Today, the property is heavily overgrown with a cellphone tower on the NW tip. However, you can still see the ramps and perhaps some debris from the remains of the concession stand/projection booth.
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Was the site a meadow before the drive-in was built there?
Jack Pierce launched the Meadow Drive-In in May 7, 1953 with the film, “Sky Full of Moon.” Pierce also operated the Lyric, Place, and the Time. And, yes, there were meadows that inspired the naming of the ozoner.
The Joe Bob Report, July 12, 1993: “The Meadow Drive-In, on State Highway 9 outside Stigler, Oklahoma, burned to the ground one Wednesday night … The drive-in lasted forty years, beginning in 1951, when Jack Pierce opened it with Mickey Rooney starring in All Ashore. At one time the Meadow had "Buck Night” (one dollar per carload), but they had to discontinue because too many people came in hay trucks filled with thirty or forty people."