Skyway Drive-In
71305 Main Road,
Greenport,
NY
11944
71305 Main Road,
Greenport,
NY
11944
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Damage from a hurricane in 1975 caused damages totally $20,000 including the 40 x 80 foot replacement screen.
Sources confirm the 1975 sale date to St. Peters Lutheran Church so it was non-functional when the fire occurred.
Uploaded a picture of the decaying screen and the pylon advertising the church. Pylon is still used actively by the church.
A closer address is 71305 Main Rd, Greenport, NY.
Google Maps has updated their addresses and this puts it right next to the property on the east side.
As mentioned before, the pylon or marquee is the only remaining structure left from the drive-in. The rest of the property is overgrown.
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Just saw an anniversary booklet from the Greenport Fire Department. There was a picture of a 1978 fire at the Drive-In which appeared to involve the screen. Wonder if that’s why and when it closed. Have to do more research.
Just saw an anniversary booklet from the Greenport Fire Department. There was a picture of a 1978 fire at the Drive-In which appeared to involve the screen. Wonder if that’s why and when it closed. Have to do more research.
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