Skyline Drive-In
182 SE Brewer Road,
Shelton,
WA
98584
182 SE Brewer Road,
Shelton,
WA
98584
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Skyline Drive-In (Official)
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Functions: Movies (First Run)
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Box Office:
360.462.4707
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The Skyline Drive-In opened around may 1964 with Walt Disney’s “Lady and the Tramp”.
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The same story also appeared in the March 23, 2014 edition of The Olympian newspaper in Olympia, Washington.
KEN LAYTON — Please email me, sir! Thanks, brother! DriveInGuys.com is back online — I want to upload your interview, and more!
On the post “Drive-In Theatre Preservation Society on September 1, 2015 at 6:50 pm”, they need to update their URL.
The current one (as of 3/15/2019) is https://www.thedriveinguys.com/.
I drove past the Skyline a couple of days ago and the totem pole is now gone. :(
Opening for this season is delayed due to coronavirus. They think they will open in late April.
Now re-opening for the season today under Governor Jay Inslee’s “Phase 2” coronavirus guidelines.
KCPQ-TV channel 13 just did a feature story about the Skyline on the 10 o'clock evening news today.
The “Skyline” neon sign was taken down two weeks ago. It is being restored by the crew at Shelton Neon and will be re-installed at the theater in the coming weeks. More details here: https://www.facebook.com/Shelton-Neon-Project-214330945293135/
The photo of Ken Layton (?) with the projector lens that is displayed as the photo for the Skyline has an incorrect caption.
INCORRECT: “The Skyline Drive-In opened in 1962. This single screen drive-in has a capacity for 330 cars.”
CORRECT: The Olympian newspaper of May 28, 1964, noted that the drive-in opened with “Lady and the Tramp” in 1964. Not 1962.
Confirming gregsalo’s note with a few bonus names.
Boxoffice, July 6, 1964: “Shelton, Wash. - Mason County’s first drive-in theatre was opened recently five miles south of town on the Olympia highway. The 354-car airer, built on a 16-acre tract, is a project of Fred Thibodeau and Fred Henry, who are painters by day in the Bremerton Navy shipyard and exhibitors at night and on weekends, operating several theatres.”