Skyline Drive-In
3909 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
Tulsa,
OK
74106
3909 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
Tulsa,
OK
74106
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You can see the Skyline Drive-In open in a 1967 aerial. By 1980, it had been completely demolished. Only the ramps and outline remained at that time.
Today, even that is gone with only a faint hint of the entrance and exit roads remaining.
Listings ended in 1970.
The Skyline Drive-In opened on April 23rd, 1948.
Crown Auto World is in Bristow, not Tulsa.
As the address indicates, the area is empty save for a cell phone tower that stands about where the concession stand/projection booth was located.
Apart from faint hints of the entrance and exit roads, there is no trace of the drive-in remaining.
Opened on 20/4/1951 with 2 cartoons(Plutos heart throb, the other cartoon name is unreadable), and “Vengeance Valley”. The site is now Crown Auto World.
There’s a nice aerial photo at the Tulsa Historical Society, although it inaccurately captions that the Skyline opened in 1956. Actually, it was included in the Theatre Catalog’s first drive-in list in the 1948-49 edition. The exec at the time was Henry Gritting of Griffith Theatres.
The drive-in location offered a spectacular view of downtown Tulsa, but it closed in 1970 due in part to the fact that it was well away from where the city was growing. The Apache, Airview, and 11th Street drive-ins lasted into the early 1980s and the Admiral Twin is still around today.
You can see what’s left of the Skyline Drive-In at 3909 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, Tulsa, OK. The land itself is empty save for a cellphone tower. The old entrance road is just to the south of the trail leading to the tower and the remaining rocks and debris mark the outline of the drive-in. http://tinyurl.com/pngo3vv
Here is an aerial photo I found of the Skyline dated 1954. http://tinyurl.com/mewas5h
The street photo is way off for the Skyline Theater. It’s basically located at 3909 N. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd on the west side of the road. It was completely torn down and is now overgrown with trees and brush.
Modern Aire was later renamed Admiral Drive-In Theatre …
http://tinyurl.com/35pwwr
There were ten drive-ins in Tulsa listed in the 1963 motion picture almanac. Eight of them are listed here, including the former Highway 66,now the 11th Street Drive-In. The two missing drive-ins are the the Modern Aire and the Sheridan.
You’ll find a complete account of Tulsa’s Skyline Drive-In Theatre by clicking here;
http://tulsatvmemories.com/aida.html