The Twin City Drive-In In Centralia, Unfortunately I Cannot Find The Opening Date To This. But The Earliest Information I Can Find Dates Back As A Sponsor From October 1950.
In February 1951 Just Before Its Reopening For The Season, Police Reported A Robbery At The Twin City That $1,000 And A couple Of Items Were Stolen.
I found information off of Newspapers.com if you are curious. Sometimes I go in random city one-by-one to see how many theatres or airdomes that they got at the time.
I Think This Is The Location That Opened In 1931. Before That, The City Of Cameron Used To Have The Wonderland Theatre, The New Hefley Theatre, The Auditorium Theatre And The Princess Theatre.
The Top O Texas Drive-In Ended Up Closing Its Gates In The Middle Of July 1976. After Its Closing A Week Or 2 Later, Workers From The First National Bank Paid $311,000 For The Drive-In’s Property On July 29th. The Theater Ended Up Demolishing In November 1977 After A Report On The Pampa Daily News.
There Are At Least 3 More McKinney Short-Lived Theatres I Found So Far. I Just Found The McKinney Airdome (Around Late 1900s?-1911); The Nickel-Dime Theatre, Later Happy-Hour Theatre, And Airdome (1907?-1917); And The Lyric Theatre (Around 1910?-1911).
The Columbia Air Dome Opened Its Doors To The Public On April 6th, 1911. During Its Last Year In 1914, The Columbia Air Dome Was Renamed As Columbia Protoplay Theatre During Its Last Legs And Ended Up Closing Its Doors In The Spring Of 1914.
The Scenic Theater In Whitewright Was Known To Be The First Theater In Whitewright Opened Its Doors To The Public On September 20th, 1912 With An Unknown Program. A Day Later, Triple Unknown Programs Were Shown.
As I Can’t Find A Lot Of Detail About This Theater. The Theater Sometime Only Lasted For A Very Short Amount Of Time, Despite Being A Popular Theater As It Closed Its Doors Sometime In 1914.
As Of 1990, The Sunrise Cinema 5 Didn’t Appear In Newspapers Mainly, But Still In Operational. The Sunrise Also Contained A Police Report On November 16th, 1995 Before It Finally Closed Its Doors Sometime In The Late 1990s After The Theater Tried To Bring More Workers In 1997.
The Hossiac Drive-In Only Lasted For At Least 17 Years. In Early September 1967, The Hossiac Drive-In Ended Up Showing Their Last First-Run Film. The Theater Ended Up Closing In October 1967 Because The Hossiac Did Not Had A Huge Success Running Horror Films For An Entire Month. The Theater However Sat Abandoned For Decades.
I Can’t Find A Lot Of Information About The Front Drive-In. But All I Remember Is In 1965, The Front Doubled The State’s Offer. But I Can’t Find Anything About The Front Drive-In Ever Since 1964. I Think They Closed It After The 1963 Season Or Something Else….
The Twin City Drive-In In Centralia, Unfortunately I Cannot Find The Opening Date To This. But The Earliest Information I Can Find Dates Back As A Sponsor From October 1950.
In February 1951 Just Before Its Reopening For The Season, Police Reported A Robbery At The Twin City That $1,000 And A couple Of Items Were Stolen.
Yes Ben Minnotte (Host Of Oddity Archive) Remembers This Location As Of 1991-96.
I found information off of Newspapers.com if you are curious. Sometimes I go in random city one-by-one to see how many theatres or airdomes that they got at the time.
I Think This Is The Location That Opened In 1931. Before That, The City Of Cameron Used To Have The Wonderland Theatre, The New Hefley Theatre, The Auditorium Theatre And The Princess Theatre.
The Top O Texas Drive-In Ended Up Closing Its Gates In The Middle Of July 1976. After Its Closing A Week Or 2 Later, Workers From The First National Bank Paid $311,000 For The Drive-In’s Property On July 29th. The Theater Ended Up Demolishing In November 1977 After A Report On The Pampa Daily News.
Right After It Closed In 1961, It Was Demolished On September 21st, 1963 To Make Way For A Furnishing Store.
There Are At Least 3 More McKinney Short-Lived Theatres I Found So Far. I Just Found The McKinney Airdome (Around Late 1900s?-1911); The Nickel-Dime Theatre, Later Happy-Hour Theatre, And Airdome (1907?-1917); And The Lyric Theatre (Around 1910?-1911).
The Columbia Air Dome Opened Its Doors To The Public On April 6th, 1911. During Its Last Year In 1914, The Columbia Air Dome Was Renamed As Columbia Protoplay Theatre During Its Last Legs And Ended Up Closing Its Doors In The Spring Of 1914.
Actually, This Location Opened Sometime In The Early 1930s. The Earliest Information That I Can Find About It Is May 1935’s Showings And That Is It.
The Scenic Theater In Whitewright Was Known To Be The First Theater In Whitewright Opened Its Doors To The Public On September 20th, 1912 With An Unknown Program. A Day Later, Triple Unknown Programs Were Shown. As I Can’t Find A Lot Of Detail About This Theater. The Theater Sometime Only Lasted For A Very Short Amount Of Time, Despite Being A Popular Theater As It Closed Its Doors Sometime In 1914.
The Valley Drive-In In Sayre Opened Its Gates On May 12th, 1950; And Was Operated Seasonal From May Until Late September.
In August Of 1956, The Valley Drive-In Installed An 85ft CinemaScope Screen.
On April 13th, 1973, The Sayre Fire Department Responded To The Grass Fire At The Valley, But Reopened Shortly Afterwards.
However, In The Late 1970s Into The Early 1980s, The Valley Drive-In Was Popular For Special Events.
The Theater Ended Up Demolishing In 1986, And The Bank Of Bradford County Is Built On Its Site.
The Sky-Vu Was Demolished On April 24th, 1984 And Apartments Was Later Built On Its Site.
Opened Sometime In The Early Fall 1947.
Opening On May 17th, 1950.
The Skyvue Drive-In Of Oneonta Opened Its Gates On May 13th, 1955 With “The Long Long Trailer”.
The Autovue (Auto Vue) Drive-In In Spokane According To The Spokesman-Review Opened Its Gates In June 1946.
I Can’t Find A Closing Date To The Audiovue, But Was Still In Operation Since 1981 With First-Runs.
As Of 1990, The Sunrise Cinema 5 Didn’t Appear In Newspapers Mainly, But Still In Operational. The Sunrise Also Contained A Police Report On November 16th, 1995 Before It Finally Closed Its Doors Sometime In The Late 1990s After The Theater Tried To Bring More Workers In 1997.
I Checked On Other Websites, It Did Close In 1963.
The Hossiac Drive-In Only Lasted For At Least 17 Years. In Early September 1967, The Hossiac Drive-In Ended Up Showing Their Last First-Run Film. The Theater Ended Up Closing In October 1967 Because The Hossiac Did Not Had A Huge Success Running Horror Films For An Entire Month. The Theater However Sat Abandoned For Decades.
I Can’t Find A Lot Of Information About The Front Drive-In. But All I Remember Is In 1965, The Front Doubled The State’s Offer. But I Can’t Find Anything About The Front Drive-In Ever Since 1964. I Think They Closed It After The 1963 Season Or Something Else….
I Heard There Is Another Theater In Columbus Called The New Era Theatre Which Operated When The Rio Theatre Is The Orpheum Theatre.
Sorry About The Top-Right.
I Can’t Find Even A Grand Opening Ad Of The Batesville Drive-In. But The Earliest Photo I Can Find Is A Showing From July 8th, 1955.
Its On The Top-Left.
November 1973