{"id":315,"date":"2009-02-06T02:07:17","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T07:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=315"},"modified":"2013-03-19T22:59:53","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T03:59:53","slug":"drive-in-theater-two-notch-road-at-pine-belt-road-1970s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Twilite Drive-In \/ Starlite Drive-In Theater, Two Notch Road at Pine Belt Road: 1970s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/drive_in02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/drive_in02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/drive_in04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/drive_in04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/drive_in05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/drive_in05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/drive_in06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/drive_in06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/drive_in07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/02\/drive_in07_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At one time, the area that is now the <i>CVS<\/i> & <i>Food Lion<\/i> plaza on Two Notch Road hosted a drive-in theater.  I can't remember the name of the place now, but as I recall, the entrance was more or less where the CVS now is with the screen behind that and a tilted a bit leftwards.  Growing up, we only saw a movie at a drive-in once (I think it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0059017\/\">Cat Ballou<\/a> somewhere on the Grand Strand), so I never made it to the place while it was in operation.  I think a number of area drive-ins went porno in the 70s -- I know the one near Spring Valley did, and the one off of Sunset\/River Road did, but I don't think this was one of them (though the nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=123\">Atlantic Twin Theater<\/a> did).<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, after the drive-in business went under, the lot was used as a flea-market for a number of years,  with the speaker poles still strewn amongst the tables -- I <i>did<\/i> stop by several times while it was in that configuration though I can't remember actually buying anything.  I think the lot was vacant for several years after that with the heavy development of the strip mall starting in the 90s (and as you can see still continuing to this day).  Personally I'd rather still have a drive-in (and one day I <i>really<\/i> will make it out to Moneta, this time for <i>sure<\/i>..)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 6 Feb 09<\/b>:  Found out that the place was originaly called the <i>Twilite<\/i> and later renamed the <i>Starlite<\/i>, so I've updated the post title.  I found that out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drive-ins.com\/theater\/scttwil\">here<\/a>, which also has pictures.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 19 March 2013<\/b>:  At some point I have to do some research down at the library to definitely untangle the Twilite\/Starlite story, but in the meantime, the new <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4\">Whole Foods<\/a> has a photo mural of the old <i>Starlite<\/i> which used to occupy their location on Fort Jackson Boulevard:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170294.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170294_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1170294_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1170294_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170295.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170295_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1170295_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1170295_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170296.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/03\/p1170296_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1170296_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1170296_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At one time, the area that is now the CVS &#038; Food Lion plaza on Two Notch Road hosted a drive-in theater. I can't remember the name of the place now, but as I recall, the entrance was more or less where the CVS now is with the screen behind that and a tilted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,15,5],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-business","tag-entertainment","tag-historic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}