Sunset Drive-In

jwmovies on January 19, 2023 at 9:48 am

The screen with porn can be seen from both Hwy 16 AND Clement! You talk about an eyeful! These 2 streets with Main St. were the drags of south Columbia…

50sSNIPES on October 31, 2021 at 1:24 pm

It also opened with a Tom and Jerry cartoon in “The Two Mousketeers” and a MGM “News Of The Day” newsreel.

The “Sun-Set” name lasted until 1955 when the name was correctly reduced to “Sunset”, although some papers recommend that name as early as August 1954.

The Sunset Drive-In ended its life at the end of the 1987 season, after screening X-rated films for a truckload of years since April 18, 1969.

Before the theater began running its longtime stunt with X-rated films, the last first-run feature the Sunset ran before flipping the table is Sean Connery’s “ThunderBall” which only ran for a week beginning on April 11, 1969.

The theater had a few incidents from here-and-there such as robberies, protesting letters, and even the manager, 26-year-old Michael Vassey, arrested from the Columbia Police Department in March 1975 due to the theater screening X rated films out into the public, and was later charged with violation of the state law later that first week of July of that year.