Starlite Drive In
226 2nd Street,
Belmont,
MS
38827
226 2nd Street,
Belmont,
MS
38827
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Edited from my December 20, 2023 (8:16 PM) comment:
The projection booth remained standing until the early-2000s.
Mr. B. B. Russell opened Jala’s Drive-In in Belmont MS on Sept. 1, 1963, per a note in Boxoffice a couple of weeks later. Jala’s advertised in the 1969 Belmont High School yearbook, the Belmontian.
The drive-in was still included in the 1976 Motion Picture Almanac, although misspelled as Sala’s, with a capacity of 190 cars. The rebooted MPA list in 1977 listed the Starlite, capacity 200, owner J. Curtis. Belmont’s Starlite persisted through the end of the MPA drive-in list in 1988.