Big Sky Drive-In
4111 W. Indian School Road,
Phoenix,
AZ
85019
4111 W. Indian School Road,
Phoenix,
AZ
85019
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Previous Names: Tab Drive-In, Vale Drive-In
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The Tab Drive-In opened October 18, 1956 with Glenn Ford in “Jubal” & Pedro Armendariz in “The Littlest Outlaw”. It was renamed Vale Drive-In on February 22, 1958. In 1959 it was renamed Big Sky Drive-In. It operated until 1985. Car capacity was 400.
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Opened as Tab Drive-in with some cartoons(not named), “Jubal” and “Littlest outlaw”. Opened as as Vale Drive-in with “Jack Slade” and “Panhandle”.
Boxoffice, Aug. 10, 1957: “The operators of the Tab Drive-In have filed a petition for bankruptcy.”
Boxoffice, Aug. 10, 1957: “The operators of the Tab Drive-In have filed a petition for bankruptcy.”
Boxoffice, March 24, 1958: “Wayne Arnold has renamed the Sage Drive-In in Phoenix the Vale”
Boxoffice, Oct. 27, 1956: “The Tab, newest drive-in theatre (in Phoenix), will show movies from dusk to dawn as long as patrons are on hand, according to Manager Wayne Arnold”
The Sage / Vale was definitely on West Indian School Road, near where aerial photos show a drive-in by 1958 through 1986. (The screen was gone in 1987.) Please add Sage Drive-In as a Previous Name here.
Reopened on 10/10/1957 with “Duel in the sun” and “Funny face”.
Reopened on 10/10/1957 as Sage Drive-in.
Reopened as Vale Drive-in on 22/2/1958 with “Jack Slade” and “Panhandle”.
Boxoffice, May 4, 1957: “Col. Charles A. Watt, commander of Vincent Air Force base just outside Phoenix, has termed a new drive-in theatre near the base a "hazard to air navigation” and ordered it off limits to base personnel. He cited the Tab Drive-In’s 60-foot-high screen as the safety hazard. The theatre is just outside the western boundary of the base on a line with an east-west runway which air force officials hace ceased to use except in emergencies."
A plaza and storage business occupy the site, with no traces of the drive-in remaining.