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03000182 [ 1] Added to NRHP. April 2, 2003. 66 Drive-In is a historic drive-in theater national historic district located on U.S. Route 66 in Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri. The theater opened on September 22, 1949, four years before the first local television stations signed on in the Joplin - Springfield area. [ 2][ 3] In an era before ...
Following a successful neighborhood petition for a zoning variance, East 88th Avenue Drive-in opened in August 1971. It was one of three theaters established by Paul Cory, who had also operated the Starlite Drive-In in Sterling, Colorado. [2] The 1971 season was reportedly unprofitable, and in 1972 the drive-in began showing X-rated movies.
Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1944 American Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith family in St. Louis leading up to the opening of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition (most commonly referred to as the World's Fair) in the spring of 1904.
Drive-in movies were once a mainstay of American life — at its peak in 1958, the industry boasted more than 4,000 across the nation, according to the United Drive-In Theatre Owners Association ...
The News-Leader compiled a list of 16 television shows and movies set in Missouri — some of which ... before traveling by bus to St. Louis. From St. Louis, the two drive in a rental car the ...
G. The Game of Their Lives (2005 film) The Glass Menagerie (1950 film) The Glass Menagerie (1966 film) The Glass Menagerie (1973 film) The Glass Menagerie (1987 film) The Great St. Louis Bank Robbery.
The Spirit of St. Louis is a 1957 aviation biography film in CinemaScope and Warnercolor from Warner Bros., directed by Billy Wilder, produced by Leland Hayward, and starring James Stewart as Charles Lindbergh. The screenplay was adapted by Charles Lederer, Wendell Mayes, and Billy Wilder from Lindbergh's 1953 autobiographical account of his ...
Meet Me in St. Louis is a 1989 musical based on the 1944 film of the same name, which in turn is based on the 1942 novel of the same name by Sally Benson.The musical is about a wealthy lawyer's large family and household living in St. Louis, Missouri in a Victorian era style mansion and their excitement and anticipation of the family and the city on the eve of the 1904 World's Fair.