Sky-Vu Drive-In

1900 N. Turner Street,
Hobbs, NM 88240

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MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on May 21, 2022 at 8:32 pm

Hobbs Daily News-Sun, Sept. 30, 1951: “In 1948, Theater Enterprises, Inc., acquired 14 acres from Hobbs Houses, Inc., on the Hobbs-Lovington highway and built the Sky-Vu drive-in theater."

I’ll bet that’s what someone read in 1975 and repeated. Was the date mentioned in 1951 just a typo, or did someone misremember a date that badly just 28 months after the drive-in opened?

Anyway, the last Sky Vu ad I could find in the News-Sun was $1 a carload on Jan. 28, 1962 for “Hell Bent for Leather” and “Plunder in the Sun”. The next day’s paper had ads for the Flamingo Twin Drive-In but nothing for the Sky Vu.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on April 12, 2022 at 6:21 pm

A Hobbs Daily News-Sun retropective on Sept. 18, 1975 mentioned, “In 1948 Theatre Enterprises opened the Sky-Vu drive-in theater on Hobbs-Lovington Highway.” However, two contemporary notes suggest that the Sky Vu opened on May 5, 1949. An ad in the May 1, 1949 Hobbs Daily News-Sun said that would the date of the Grand Opening. And a roundup of new theater openings in the May 14, 1949 Boxoffice included "Hobbs, N. M. - Sky-Vue Drive-In opened May 5 by R. W. Ferguson.”

cottonchipper
cottonchipper on September 15, 2007 at 3:52 pm

Here’s a link to a photograph of the Sky-Vu, which was located at 1900 North Turner:

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cottonchipper
cottonchipper on September 15, 2007 at 7:29 am

Location was 1900 N. Turner.