Park-Vu Drive-In
1153 E. 3900 S,
Mill Creek,
UT
84124
1153 E. 3900 S,
Mill Creek,
UT
84124
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The first location for the Park-Vu Drive-In in Salt Lake City has its own page on Cinema Treasures. This second location for the Park-Vu Drive-In was located in Mill Creek to the south of Salt Lake City, opening in 1952. It was operated by Ellis Everell. It had in-car heaters and booked the A-class films; "Anatomy of a Murder" was showing. One show only. Strict warning for adults only. Admission was a rather large $1.00 per person. It was closed at the end of the 1977 season and was demolished.
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The Park-Vu was one of a very few (if not the only) drive-in theaters in Salt Lake City to install 70-mm equipment.
They showed the area’s only first-run presentation of “Solomon and Sheba” in Technirama-70.
The original Park-Vu Drive-In opened within the Salt Lake City city limits at 540 West 13th South on June 7, 1950 with “Little Women.“ Less than two years later, it was over for the Park-Vu as torrential rains and a flood decimated the Park-Vu. It would move south to establish a drier position.
HERE is a 1950 aerial photo of the Park Vu Drive-In’s original location. The address is:
540 W 1300 S
Salt Lake City, UT 84115
The second Park Vu Drive-In is visible on the Historic Aerials website using 1958 and 1965 imagery. It was located at:
S 1100 E at E 3900 S
Millcreek, UT 84124
A more accurate address for the last location of this theater is 1153 E 3900 S, Millcreek, UT 84124. This points directly to the entrance road. Now Mountain Land Physical Therapy.
Please update.
Boxoffice, Dec. 20, 1976: “SALT LAKE CITY – A ten-acre, $6,000,000 office and medical complex will be built next year on the site of the Park-Vu Drive-In, 1145 East 39th South by Price Rentals … Razing of the drive-in and construction of the complex, to be known as Millcreek Professional Park, will begin in the spring.”
Opened on 7/6/1950 with “Little Women”.
Boxoffice, June 6, 1953: “Ellis Everill, whose Park-Vu was flooded out during Salt Lake’s unseasonal weather of a year ago, will open a new Park-Vu Drive-In within a week in the southeast section.”
Boxoffice, June 5, 1954: “Former owners of the Park Vu Drive-In lost a $48,796 suit filed against the city for damages suffered in 1952 floods. … The city had decided to turn floodwaters from their natural course and upon the drive-in to save what it regarded as "more valuable property” below. The drive-in operators, Leon J. Frickberg, Beth Everill Frickberg, William R. Everill and Emma L. C. Everill, contended there was no reason to divert the floodwaters through the drive-in."
Did the former drive-in owners win there flood damages case against the city?
Is there anything on the site of the original Park-Vu Drive-in?