Starlit Drive-In
307 Harmon Street,
Glendive,
MT
59330
307 Harmon Street,
Glendive,
MT
59330
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Previous Names: Star-Lite Drive-In
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The Star-Lite Drive-In was opened in 1951 and was listed in the 1950-1951 edition of Theatre Catalog as being operated by Lewis W. Moore who also had opened the Skylark Drive-In in 1951. By 1955 it was operated by Bob & Bill Johnson. It was later renamed Starlit Drive-In. It was demolished in 1965, but was still listed in the 1970 edition of Film Daily Yearbook.
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Moving these over from Glendive’s Skylark page. I haven’t seen any owner info that wasn’t the Johnsons.
Boxoffice, June 3, 1950: “GLENDIVE, MONT. – Bob and Bill Johnson have opened the new Star-Lit Drive-In, first local outdoor theatre. The theatre accommodates 300 cars.”
Boxoffice, May 19, 1958: “GLENDIVE, MONT. – Bill Johnson, owner of the Star-Lit Drive-In announced the purchase of the theatre by Henry Hochhalter of Hardin for about $45,000.”
The 1951 Film Daily Year Book listed both the Skylark and the “Star-Lite” under Glendive.
The Oct. 5, 1952 edition of the Glendive Daily Ranger noted that “The San Francisco Story” was playing at the Star-Lit Drive-in Theater, and “Room For One More” was showing at the Skylark Outdoor Theatre.
A vandalism report put the Star-Lit’s neon sign “just west of the Yellowstone River bridge”. That matches the position of a drive-in shown in a 1956 aerial photo. By 1965, it had been razed. Its modern-day position is just east of the parking lot of a grocery store at 307 Harmon St.
Given the condition of the land, the drive-in had been razed well before 1965.
While taking down the structures is understandable, it’s unusual to totally raze and erase the outline and ramps unless something was going to be built on the property.
And in this case, the store and parking lot were built just to the west. So, it may be that something else was planned, but fell through.