Airview Drive-In
7500 E. Pine Street,
Tulsa,
OK
74101
7500 E. Pine Street,
Tulsa,
OK
74101
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The faint outline of the entrance drive is now gone. The only remnant left is the ramps from Pine Street which indicated where the entrance and exit roads were located.
A photo caption at the Oklahoma Historical Society, from the Griffith-Video Independent Theatres Collection, reads, “Photograph of the sign for the Airview Drive In, opened 1951, closed September 10, 1981, Tulsa, OK.” They got the opening date right, and that closing date had to come from somewhere. Then again, that was a Thursday, which would have been an odd day to close. Maybe the Airview closed on Labor Day 1981 (Sept. 7) and didn’t reopen the following Friday? Who knows?
Closed at the end of the 1982 season or june 1983. The site is now a DHS facilty for children awaiting placement for foster care.
Opened on 7/6/1951 with “Double crossbones”.
The property is now the home of a DHS facility.
http://tinyurl.com/k5klae6
…only the faint outline of the entrance drive can still be seen.
This link has recent photos showing the Airview property now overgrown with wild bluebells,
http://www.roadsideoklahoma.com/node/194
Cool looking screen tower.
This web site is devoted the Airview Drive-IN …
http://tulsatvmemories.com/airview.html
Other vintage photos of this drive-in can be seen by typing in word “airview”,
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Courtesy of Tulsa Library comes this vintage image of the Airview Drive-In Theatre screen tower, and Story Book Lane -
http://www.tulsalibrary.org/JPG/D4039.jpg
Red Dawg: And the “tulsatvmemories” link really has alot of drive-in trivia, but the aerial 1940’s aerial photo is really the best!
The “losttulsa” link is fascinating and especially when I scrolled down far enough and found the Price Tower built by Frank Lloyd Wright article with photo. I have sent it to a fellow FLW fan as I know he will appreciate it.
This web site contains complete history and photos of every drive-in theatre that ever existed in Tulsa,
http://tulsatvmemories.com/aida.html
Near the bottome of these web pages can be seen a color photo of the Tulsa’s Airview Drive-In Theatre;
http://www.losttulsa.com/
Vintage photos of the Airview Drive-In can be found here;
http://tulsatvmemories.com
and
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Last January I bought a 2005 calendar with a wonderful antique photograph of the AIRVIEW Drive-In, along with views of other early day Tulsa movie houses. It’s entitiled ‘Tulsa, See-Ya at the Movies’. Don’t know if its still available, but this calendar was published by a Tulsa company called Yellow Pad Inc.