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tclowe commented about Starlite Drive-In on Jan 26, 2013 at 5:57 pm

Regarding the Starlite Drive-in Theater in San Angelo, TX: There was a drive-in theater at the intersection of what was then US 87 (now FM 1223) and the Old Christoval Road on the south edge of town. It was demolished in the early-to-mid 1960’s to make room for a mobile home park which I believe is still there. The theater was named Starlite, or Twilight, or something like that. I think I do remember seeing an old drive-in theater screen off Sherwood Way at the location you specified (near the old city incenerator), but I never heard its name since it was closed. One other item: When I lived in San Angelo in the 1960’s I was organist for Trinity Methodist Church, whose original Wicks pipe organ had come out of the Texas Theater downtown. By the time I played there, that organ had been removed from the church (in 1954) and a new Wicks had been installed; however, the newer Wicks utilized several ranks of pipes from the old Texas Theater Wicks that had been in the church. I understand that one other San Angelo theater had a Wicks pipe organ. Does anyone know which theater that was?