Starlite Drive In
226 2nd Street,
Belmont,
MS
38827
226 2nd Street,
Belmont,
MS
38827
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Previous Names: Jala's Drive-In
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The Jala’s Drive-In was opened on September 1, 1963. It was a very small drive-in with a capacity for 190-cars. It was renamed Starlite Drive-In around 1977 and the car capacity was increased to 200-cars. It was still open in 1988. Now residences next to the airport. Drive-In Road is where the entrance road was located.
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The Starlite has to be the smallest drive-in theater in all of Mississippi. Like I mean, holy crap, it’s a ridiculously tiny drive-in. I’ll say around 50 cars as the total capacity.
A 1955 aerial view shows nothing, meaning that the theater was built after 1955. However, a couple of aerial views from the 1980s shows the drive-in appearing to be still in operation. The screen was gone by 1996 but the projection booth appears to be standing for another few years.
Mr. B. B. Russell opened Jala’s Drive-In in Belmont MS on Sept. 1, 1963, per a note in Boxoffice a couple of weeks later. Jala’s advertised in the 1969 Belmont High School yearbook, the Belmontian.
The drive-in was still included in the 1976 Motion Picture Almanac, although misspelled as Sala’s, with a capacity of 190 cars. The rebooted MPA list in 1977 listed the Starlite, capacity 200, owner J. Curtis. Belmont’s Starlite persisted through the end of the MPA drive-in list in 1988.