Rig Drive-In

Kenmore on May 30, 2025 at 4:34 pm

A closer address is 2218 Lubbock Rd, Brownfield, TX.

Google Maps has updated their addresses and this puts it right at the entrance.

The drive-in had been completely demolished by 1967. Today, a couple of steel buildings sit on the front part, while most of the property remains undeveloped. However, there is no trace of the drive-in remaining.

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MichaelKilgore on April 18, 2020 at 10:06 am

Billboard, July 19, 1952: “Mrs. Ethel Jones Howze and son, Sammy Jones, held open house at their Rustic Drive-In Theater at Brownfield, Tex., celebrating 30 years of theater operation in the city. … The Rig Drive-In will be opened soon there, according to Mrs. Howze.”

Kenmore on October 21, 2018 at 10:16 pm

The address that Drive-In 54 cites is too far north.

In estimating the location of the drive-in, I used the only constants from the 1954 aerial up to today, which is the position of US 82 and County Road 2066. From that, the address is as I described on the north side of 2204 U.S. 82, Brownfield, TX.

That address is the business address of Rautbort Irrigation Equipment & Supplies which occupies the southern edge of the property the drive-in was located. It’s also clear that from the sheer number of rotting vehicles that it’s an auto salvage yard as well.

While no trace of the drive-in remains, it is an open field with lots of clutter, although it does retain the basic outline.

Whatever the administrator wants to use as a location is fine with me. I’m only pointing out that the address I gave does take up at least a little of where the drive-in once stood.