Starland Drive-In
3404 Broadway Street,
Mount Vernon,
IL
62864
3404 Broadway Street,
Mount Vernon,
IL
62864
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The Starland Drive-In opened April 30, 1952, located on 34th Street, was one of two in Mt. Vernon (the other being the Mount Vernon Drive-In which was also operated by Frank Glenn). However, unlike the Mount Vernon Drive-In (which opened a couple years before the Starland Drive-In and operated into the 1980’s) this drive-in would not be nearly as long-lasting, closing just 8 years after it opened on October 30, 1960.
The property is still vacant, decades after the drive-in was demolished, with little to show that there was ever a drive-in on the site.
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This drive-in was behind what is KMart.
Approx. address was 3404 Broadway.
All ramps though overgrown are still there.
The Starland Drive-In launched April 30, 1952 with Abbott and Costello’s only color feature film, “Jack and the Beanstalk.” The 700-slot theater was opened seasonally from April 1st to the end of October. J. Frank Glenn owned both of Mt. Vernon’s drive-in theaters with the earlier Mt. Vernon Drive-In. The Starland closed October 30, 1960 for the season with a showing of “The Apartment.” That would turn out to be the final showing as the Starland and Mr. Vernon Drive-Ins were sold by Glenn to the Kerasotes Theatre Circuit which continued the Mt. Vernon Drive-In but discontinued the Starland.
58 years after it closed and the ramps are still plainly visible in aerial views.
Opened With Abbott And Costello In “Jack And The Beanstalk” And Douglas Fairbanks Jr. In “Mr. Drakes Duck”.