Starlite Drive-In
1124 Edgewater Drive,
Pekin,
IL
61554
1124 Edgewater Drive,
Pekin,
IL
61554
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Vintage Aerial link with additional history by J Wald, whose father was the projectionist.
https://vintageaerial.com/photos/illinois/tazewell/1980/MTA/31/8
A young kid around twenty years old was running from the cops and started the fire while hiding out from them. It was a suicide. His mother used to be our landlady.
1999 and 2010 aerial pictures added
My wife and I would go to the Starlite when our son was just a baby. The Starlite was the last drive-in in the Peoria area and if we couldn’t get a babysitter we could take our son and he would fall asleep by the time the movie would start.
This burned down around 1990 during winter. A man broke into the concession stand and started a fire to keep warm.
I believe this venue opened around 1950. Around 1990, a fire destroyed most of the concession building. The rest of the property bulldozed a few years later.