Skyway Drive-In
1956 RR 20 E,
Fonthill,
ON
L0S 1E0
1956 RR 20 E,
Fonthill,
ON
L0S 1E0
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Both Canadian Odeon and Cineplex merged in July 1984, and the Cineplex Odeon identity was introduced the following year in 1985.
Opened on October 8th, 1982 by Canadian Odeon Theatres. Grand opening ad posted
Can-View Drive-In opening 08 Oct 1982, Fri Niagara Falls Review (Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada) Newspapers.com
Can(ada)-View?
Re-opened in April 2023. New owners Premier Operating Corporation. Re-branded as SKYWAY DRIVE IN. Closed for the season October 2023.
2051 cars.
1956 RR 20 E, Fonthill, ON L0S 1E0, Canada gets you there in Google Maps….and the google car actually went INTO the Drive-In.
Interesting name!!
Several Niagara This Week stories list Steve Forrest as the current (as of 2016) manager / projectionist of the Can-View. Forrest or his company bought it from Cineplex Odeon in 2001 or 2002, depending on the story.
Also, one of the Can-View’s screens was hit by a tornado on the afternoon of May 20, 1996, while the movie Twister was on the marquee. This birthed a Snopes-refuted urban legend that the tornado hit while that movie was playing, even during its climactic drive-in scene.
From Niagara This Week: The Can-View, a four-screen complex located off Highway 406 at Regional Road 20, was built in 1983 not long after the Dain City drive-in was shuttered. Its four screens and space for up to 2,000 cars make it one of the biggest outdoor theatres in the country.
Kind of an unfortunate name, isn’t it? My first thought was that the cars faced the restrooms.