Ball-O-Jak Drive-In

MichaelKilgore on June 2, 2022 at 5:36 pm

As kennerado noted, this drive-in consistently advertised from at least 1953 until it closed as the Ballojak (occasionally Ballojack) with no hyphens or spaces.

The Feb. 17, 1951 issue of Boxoffice included the Ballojak in a list of drive-ins under construction. The 1952 Theatre Catalog included the “Ballo Jak (sic?) D. I. Exec: R. I. Payne, Theatre Entrs., Inc., Tower Petroleum Bldg., Dallas, Tex. (500)” So it must have opened in 1951.

The final ad I could find in the Roswell Daily Record for the Ballojak, then owned by Commonwealth, was on Sept. 20, 1970.

kennerado on June 7, 2021 at 9:18 pm

It was also called BallOJak without the dashes in the name.

davidcoppock on October 23, 2018 at 5:35 am

Odd name!! Why the name Ball-O-Jak?