Starlite Drive-In

Midway Avenue and Speedway Avenue,
Chico, CA 95928

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Kenmore
Kenmore on April 26, 2021 at 2:56 pm

We are going to have to disagree, Dansdriveintheater.

The current Google overhead view shows no evidence of ramps, only some vestige crop marks that do not line up with the ramps seen in previous aerial photos. What does appear falls considerably short and somewhat out of alignment.

So, it’s clearly been plowed up and resurfaced, much like the site of the Hillcrest Drive-In in OKC.

dansdriveintheater
dansdriveintheater on April 26, 2021 at 12:12 pm

no the ramps still remain at least they show in the current aerial.

dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on October 7, 2020 at 6:49 pm

The Starlite launched July 1, 1949 with Sabu in “Drums” and Ralph Richardson in “The Four Feathers.”

Kenmore
Kenmore on June 20, 2019 at 12:24 am

It is the empty grass field that sits on the NE corner of Midway Avenue and Speedway Avenue. Traces of the outline and ramps remained until 2005, but by 2009 the field had been plowed over, so no trace of the drive-in remains.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on June 19, 2019 at 11:17 pm

Same drive-in? The Oct. 29, 1949 issue of BoxOffice reported, “T&D Jr. Enterprises, which recently opened a drive-in theatre on Route 99E south of Chico, faces a misdemeanor charge brought by the state division of highways of failure to obtain a permit before building the structure.”

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on October 19, 2018 at 3:26 am

639 cars. Site is now a factory(Smuckers) or the empty grass field next door?

NYozoner
NYozoner on December 7, 2016 at 10:17 pm

Midway Ave at Speedway Ave Chico, CA 95928

jwmovies
jwmovies on December 8, 2012 at 9:52 pm

Approx. address for this drive-in was 101 Speedway Avenue.