Photos favorited by davidcoppock

  • <p>June 14th, 1950</p>
  • <p>A silhouette of the marquee and supporting structure of the screen at the old Cahokia Drive-In taken in the mid-70s. This was the marquee with the dancing Indian - when the neon actually worked.</p>
  • <p>September 24th, 1975 grand opening as a 3-screen drive-in.</p>
  • <p>November 6th, 1963 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>February 17th, 1953 grand opening ad</p>
  • <p>From the Albuquerque Tribune, July 21, 1964.</p> <p>Of course, I have no ownership stake in this clipping, but I don’t know its copyright status. I have uploaded it here for the Fair Use scholarly historic purpose of establishing when the “New” 66 Drive-In reopened.</p>
  • <p>1972 photo © HistoricAerials.com, used by permission</p>
  • <p>66 Micro-Midget Speedway ad/article dated 6/15/57</p>
  • <p>66 Drive-In Grand Opening Ad 8/30/49</p>
  • <p>April 26th, 1950</p>
  • <p>The bombed auditorium remains, photographed by Colin Sorensen in 1954.</p>
  • <p>Photographed in 1899.</p>
  • <p>January 5th, 1950</p>
  • <p>May 5th, 1949</p>
  • <p>July 14th, 1948</p>
  • <p>Grand opening on Thursday night, June 30th, 1949</p>
  • <p>June 18th, 1948</p>
  • <p>Launched May 29, 1949 with the film, “Scudda Ho, Scudda Hay.”</p>
  • <p>It’s October 7, 1963 and this could be the first day of operation for the Big See Drive-In which advertises from this day until its closure.</p>
  • <p>Wade Enterprises opened this as the Cecil Drive-In Theatre on July 11, 1950 with Esther Williams in “"On an Island With You.”</p>
  • <p>2005 Photo showing the site before Oasis Mobile Homes moved in and added buildings. As of December 2018, all the buildings in this photo including the screen still remain on the site.</p>
  • <p>2001 photo</p>
  • <p>2006 photo</p>
  • <p>2005 photo</p>
  • <p>2010 photo</p>
  • <p>This July 13, 1950 ad, the first mention I could find of the “Sky Vu”, has a description of the drive-in that isn’t repeated in its future ads in the weekly Elizabethville Echo. It’s possible that the drive-in opened a few days earlier or that this was the first time it thought to advertise in a town 10 miles away, but this strongly suggests that the Sky Vu opened in July 1950.</p> <p>I have no copyright interest in this advertisement, and its bare copy is unlikely to have been renewed, but don’t take my word for it. I have uploaded it here for the scholarly fair use of attempting to establish the (otherwise unknown?) opening date for this drive-in.</p>