Starlite Drive-In
59 Green Mountain Road E.,
Stoney Creek,
ON
L8J 2W4
59 Green Mountain Road E.,
Stoney Creek,
ON
L8J 2W4
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Closed 1986 by Cineplex Odeon, missed out on the 1987 season and reopened on June 10th, 1988 with the projectionist union picketing it.
Reopened as the Starlite Drive-In on May 6th, 1960 by Dydzak Drive-Ins. Grand opening ad posted.
Opened as the Scenic Drive-In on May 20th, 1955. Grand opening ad posted.
Scenic Drive-In opening 20 May 1955, Fri The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) Newspapers.com
Second and 3rd screens opened in 2007. Oldest operating Drive-in in Canada still in operation.
now has three screens please update.
Box Office magazine from June 18, 1955 reported the Scenic was alive and in a five-theater dogfight for the Hamilton audience. “The Clappison, Hamilton, and Scenic” offered $1 carload pricing M-Th “while the two FPC units, the Skyway and Mohawk,” did it M-W.
A short article in The Hamilton Spectator adds just a little help. “Only one (Hamilton area drive-in) remains: the Starlite, on Green Mountain Road in Stoney Creek. It opened in 1955 and was originally named the Scenic Drive-In.”
Thanks for the Happy Baby note. The video’s available on YouTube.
The 1959 IMPA shows the Scenic in Hamilton, owned by A. Rosenberg (who also owned a few others), capacity 500.
The 1963 IMPA shows it owned by Joe Dydzak (his family appears to have owned a few others), capacity 400.
I find the 1969 IMPA very confusing. The Scenic (cap. 400) is still in Hamilton, but so is the Starlite (748). Meanwhile, Stoney Creek had added a Starlite (642) of its own.
In the 1972 IMPA, the Scenic is gone, but the Starlite (capacity 642) remains in Stoney Creek.
51 years old and still going, great!
Thanks Drive-in Girl and Starlite Drive-in.
New offical 2008 Starlite DI Web Site
www.starlitehamilton.com/news.php?id=316
New 2006 Owner/Operator … Premiere Operating Corp of Don Mills, Ontario. Remodeled now with 3 screen and new playground and other new equipment everywhere.
Orginal name was SCENIC DRIVE IN THEATRE
This is another one of my favorite drive-ins. The Starlite is a really beautiful drive-in, it has one 82-foot, Cinemascope screen. The snack bar is one of the best in Ontario with an amazing assortment of delicious snacks in the “Snackateria.” The new Starlite Diner is now open for business and is located right by the entrance of the theatre.
I last went to Starlite on Easter week end for their dusk to dawn show of 4 movies. It was so great being at the drive-in until 4:30 in the morning! I wish i could do that again!
I believe when Starlite opened it had a different name. Drive-ins.com has the name “Scenic” but I am not sure. It is also not the original screen tower, the original was much smaller.
On another awesome note, Starlite is in a music video! The song is by a group called Shaye and is called “Happy Baby”. The entire video takes place at the beautiful Starlite and you see tons of shots of the screen, the really big snack bar inside and out and the box office. I completely freaked out when I saw this video for the first time and couldn’t believe it! When asking Steve (Guy leasing Starlite) why Shaye wanted to have their video there, he said because the producer wanted a nostalgic drive-in scene. I think it’s so amazing something I love more than anything got to be recognised by many! Way to go Starlite!
Gaelyn A.K.A “Drive-in GiRL”