Sky-Way Drive-In

A more accurate address for this theater is 22125 Rock Creek Rd, Sheridan, OR 97378. Now McFarland Cascade.

Please update.

My error. The theater was located at the corner of Highway 18 and Rock Creek Road. The box office was off of Rock Creek with reader board on 18. I looked at google maps and see that there is some kind of industrial enterprise now on the property with all signs of the drive in gone.

McMinnville Amusement was owned by Robert J. Mattecheck who had retired before I started working at the Mack theater. Bill Hibbert did not have anything to do McMinnville. He owned and worked his farm full time and ran the theaters on the side. After the theaters closed or were leased out, he continued farming until his death of a heart attack.
It’s been too many years since I’ve been in the area but I think the Sky-Way was located on the Sheridan-Willamina Highway (18) at the intersection of Pittman Road. Since the lot was never paved it would be overgrown by grass now or other structures built on the property. With the screen tower and reader board gone only the concession building might still be there.

Very true Mike.

Mr. Hibbert owned the 4 theater chain and operated them through the 50s, then retired and started leasing them out. I ran the Hi-Way during the winter/spring of ‘63/64 and then the drive-in summer of '64. Fun theaters to operate but no money to be made :–(

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