#Drive in theatre wichita movie

I sprang for a jacuzzi room, so I enjoyed a relaxing bath while soaking in history. I love a good historic hotel, so I drove up old US 40 to the Midland Railroad Hotel in Wilson. Where I Virtually Stayed: There are no hotels in Kanopolis. The tortillas are homemade, and this unassuming place provides an authentic Mexican experience at a reasonable price. Nearby Restaurant: The place to eat in Kanopolis is Orozco’s Portales Cafe.

#Drive in theatre wichita movie

Movie Showing / Total Active Nights: dark / 51 Miles Today / Total: 114 / 11775 (rounded to the nearest mile) At least I was able to get an early start for the next morning’s drive. The drive-in is only open weekends this time of year, leaving me with a Wednesday night watching TV in my room. Whatever its name, the drive-in showed movies to cars in its small lot (about 150 cars) until it closed in 2006. Josh Webb and his family bought the place in late 2011 and reopened it for the 2012 season. “The years are starting to add up, and we didn’t want to see it fall down any more than it was,” he said. Some reports suggest that its original name was the Lakeview, although it’s about 10 miles from Kanopolis Lake. OnlyInYourState claims that it was built by a “World War II veteran laid off from the salt mines”. It’s Day 109 of my virtual Drive-In-a-Day Odyssey. It took about two hours to drive from Wichita to the Kanopolis Drive In Theatre of Kanopolis KS.Ī 2012 Salina Journal article quoted by a commenter at Cinema Treasures said the Kanopolis Drive-In opened in 1952. Photo by Jayhawk Explorer, from the Carload Flickr pool