Star-Lite Drive-In
2801 James L. Redman Parkway,
Plant City,
FL
33566
2801 James L. Redman Parkway,
Plant City,
FL
33566
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UPDATE: According To The Tampa Tribute, I just recently found that the Star-Lite closed in 1992 according to a March 30, 1999 evidence on the Star-Lite being auctioned off. Unfortunately, the theater did close on September 3, 1985 with those two films because it failed to draw an amount of people since 1981. I guess it did reopen either a couple or few years later. Not sure what happened afterward.
UPDATE: I just found this not too long ago that the Starlite actually first opened as the Plant City Drive-In in November 1950. It became the Starlite in October 1952.
Opened in October 1952, closed on September 3, 1985 with “Beverly Hills Cop” and “48 Hours” as its last films after it failed to draw an amount of people since 1981. Yes it may sound confusing because the last films they’ve shown were second-runs since both films released a year prior. It sat abandoned for many years, falling apart, until demolishing in 2002.
Video from 1996: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oO5oUgHnb0
Handbills and photos of the remains of this drive-in on its gallery page at Drive-ins.com: http://www.drive-ins.com/pictures/fltsta3007.jpg
290 Parking and owned by Talgar theatres. CT member Nick Dimaggio took hundreds of pictures of Drive-ins in Flordia one Summer. I bet he has this one if he had the time to get them all on!
This drive-in is visible on Google Earth using historic aerial imagery.