Skyway Drive-In
70375 Main Road,
Greenport,
NY
11944
70375 Main Road,
Greenport,
NY
11944
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Church is still actively using the pylon. A far cry from the one at Rocky Point which is now almost obliterated by growth.
The site is overgrown, Sarah. The Pylon still stands and is used by St. Peters Lutheran Church to advertise events there. I pass it quite frequently. Per a comment above the church had purchased the land but never used it. Presumably, since they use the pylon, they still own it.
The pylons often long outlive the theater. The Rocky Point one is still up. The one for the Whitman in Melville was still up at the beginning of the year (may still be) The one for the Movies at Coram was up for years and was only removed when they finally tore down the building. I think the remains of the one for the Brookhaven Multiplex is still visible from the Long Island Expressway. The one from the Westbury Drive In was repurposed for the new multiplex erected on the site. The one at the Sunrise Mall in Massapequa was used to list stores in the complex. The one for the Patchogue All Weather advertises the gated community erected on the site. Etc. Etc.
The marquee is still there.
The church is St. Peter Lutheran.
Time to resurrect in this time of social distancing? Site is still open.
Opened with “Relentless”.
This one opened on June 29, 1950.
Yep..Kerry Segrave’s book “Drive-in Theaters A History from Their Inception in 1933” is pretty good also.
But I trust you are familiar with the book. I actually ordered mine online from Walmart.
No I have not. Sometimes my source’s are back issues of old newspapers There is alot of the small town drive-ins that not on CT. I’m working on Hutchinson, KS drive-ins now.
Really. I notice it’s not listed on the NY Drive In site. As a Drive In person have you ever crossed checked all the Drive Ins mentioned in The American Drive-In Movie Theatre by Don and Susan Sanders to see if they’re all on Cinema Treasures? I checked the ones from the Lost Broadway Theaters book.
Drive-in.com? You need to becareful on that one.
On the Drive In site. I think they said 600 cars.
Where did you see or heard about it at?
Tried phone books, newspapers the public library, people who lived there. Needless to say some of the information on that site, or any other, can be questionable.
Good luck in finding it.
If you look at the photos section in the reference made by Drive-in 54 there is information from the Peconic Bay Shopper. They did a subsequent followup article, too. That site shows a drive In in Centereach, NY. I, a theatre nut, do not remember it nor can I find reference to it anywhere else.
More information HERE
According to a Greenport time line the Sky Way opened in 1950.
Uploaded aerial from 1960
Address is: 70375 Main Road Greenport, NY
Address can’t be too far off the Google picture is of the marquee which is now used by the church.
Above address is WAY off. Approx. location for this drive-in was next to St. Peter’s Lutheran Church @ 71305 Main Road.
My father was the manager of this Sky Way in the 1960’s until his death in 1973! So many good memories…I was looking for photos,as I have none.
in 1956 it held 400 cars and was owned by Associated Prudential.