Stardust Drive-In
1300 W. Genting Boulevard,
Las Vegas,
NV
89109
1300 W. Genting Boulevard,
Las Vegas,
NV
89109
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Don’t take my word for it. Go to HistoricAerials.com and view the many photos they have at 1300 Genting Blvd., Las Vegas NV. You’ll see the drive-in there in 1950. You’ll see it unchanged, except for the shape of the screen, through 1972. The screen vanishes in 1973, and the lot stays dormant through 1989. An 11-building motel (Budget Suites?) is there in 1990, and it stays there through at least 2006. The parking garage is there by 2010, looking the same is it does on Google Maps today.
Is the Budget Suites no longer on that site? Everything comes up as that being it’s address.
Google Maps no longer likes the Stardust Road address for the old drive-in site, now occupied by a multi-level parking lot at the southwest corner of the Resorts World campus. The best permanent address might be for the fire station adjacent to it at 3050 S Sammy Davis Jr Dr. Google Maps thinks the address of the parking lot is 1300 Genting Blvd., the outer road for Desert Inn Road.
Closed in 1968.
Closed as Motor-Vu in 1956 and reopened as the Stardust Drive-In with the world premiere of Walt Disney’s The Shaggy Dog on March 20th, 1959. Grand opening ad posted.
Closed in 1956.
This opened on March 26th, 1949. Grand opening ad posted.
1953 marquee photo added courtesy of the AmeriCar The Beautiful Facebook page.
This whole area is being redeveloped.
This was also known as the Motor-Vu. Here is a photo:
http://tinyurl.com/oxd25
The car capacity for the Stardust Drive-In was 525 cars.