Skyway Drive-In
5988 Airport Road,
Bluefield,
WV
24701
5988 Airport Road,
Bluefield,
WV
24701
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Located in the Southern most part of West Virginia in Brush Fork near Bluefield. The Skyway Drive-In served Bluefield with a rather large drive-in parking 600 cars. It opened in September 1948 with Yvonne De Carlo in “Slave Girl”, it was owned by Sam Switow. It was later taken over by Newbold-Keesling and closed in 1980. It was demolished for a strip mall.
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This one was at about 5988 Airport Road. The Airport Road Shopping Center was built on part of the property, but some of the ramps remain in the rear of the property.
There are two pictures of this theater on its page at Drive-ins.com: http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/wvtskyw
STYLE:
STREAMLINE MODERNE
Open ~1950-~1985? Can anyone verify the exact dates?
Owned for it’s entire life by M. Switow & Sons, Enterprises, Inc. of Louisville, Ky. Sam J. Switow, President, they had about 14 theaters.
If you go to the Map you can still tell it was a Drive-In.
Need more info and more photos.
Thanks guys.
Crisper version photos added credit Mahood Collection, Eastern Regional Coal Archives courtesy Mercer County Historical Society. Identifies the Architect as Alex B. Mahood Sr., operator Don Keesling and Manager Clifton Hill. (Also an Outdoor Drive-In theatre located at Greentree Crossroads in Bluefield that I will add a page for.)