Skyway Drive-In
1501 Dawson Road,
Princeton,
KY
42445
1501 Dawson Road,
Princeton,
KY
42445
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A closer address is 1501 Dawson Rd, Princeton, KY.
Google Maps has updated their addresses and this puts it right on the property.
Today, the property has two private residences and virtually no trace of the drive-in remaining.
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Vernon Waible launched the Skyway Drive-in on September 15 with “Red Stallion of the Rockies” supported by two cartoons. 1950. He sold it to B.G. Moore and Dr. J.J. Rosenthal in 1951 who reopened it on March 23, 1951 (ad in photos). The venue was named for Skyway 5, 12, and 16 named in 1948 that were purportedly in the overhead space of the Princeton Drive-In. It closed at the end of its 30-year leasing agreement in style on 2, 1980 with “Up In Smoke,” “Sunset Cove,” and “Beast of the Yellow Night.”
The latest Google aerial shows virtually no evidence of the drive-in remaining.
Boxoffice, May 2, 1966: “Mrs. J. J. Rosenthal and Mrs. M. M. Botto have reopened their Skyway Drive-In on Dawson Road offering two complete shows each evening. Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers Pickering are in charge of the Skyway’s concessions. Other staffers are Tommy Farmer, projectionist, and Mrs. Harold McGowan, cashier.”
The address for this drive in is 1550 Dawson Rd, Princeton, KY 42445.
Now Tackwell Repair and a residence. Most ramps are still visible around the buildings.
Please update.
Loved coming here as a kid, great times.I saw lots of great films here.