Airport Drive-In
630 Short Creek Road,
Short Creek,
WV
26003
630 Short Creek Road,
Short Creek,
WV
26003
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The Starlite was renamed Airport Drive-In at the start of the 1956 season, and was closed in November 1983.
A closer address is 6552 River Rd, Wheeling, WV.
Google Maps has updated their addresses. This puts it right on the property.
A 1954 aerial shows the drive-in present and almost completely surrounded by a fence. By 1966, the screen was rebuilt as a widescreen and all of the fence had been removed. Difficult to say if the drive-in was still operational at that time.
The drive-in remained intact in 1982, but was demolished save for the screen by 1994.
The screen was still present in a July 2018 Google Street View, but by October 2021 it was gone.
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This was first known as the Starlite Drive-In, opening on July 20, 1950 with Joel McCrae in “Ramrod” along with a cartoon and a couple short subjects.
Google Street View from October of 2016 shows the screen, what’s left of it, quite visible. It’s pretty much a skeleton but does have a few white panels left.
cool pics andy!
Here are my pictures from April 2011.
There was a STarlite Drive-in in Short Creek.
You’re right. I don’t know what I was thinking. I couldn’t find an address on WV 2, but if that one works, might as well have that one listed.
Looks like Hwy 7 is in Ohio, across the river. Do you mean Hwy 2 instead? If you put the following address into the address bar, it’ll pop right onto the location.
630 Short Creek Rd., Short Creek, WV 26003 United States