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Home » Theater Guide » Location » United States » Texas » San Antonio » Mission 4 Drive-In
Also known as Mission Drive-In

Mission 4 Drive-In

San Antonio, TX
3100 Roosevelt Avenue
, San Antonio, TX 78214 United States
(map)
Status: Closed
Screens: Multiplex (4 Screen)
Style: Unknown
Function: Unknown
Seats: Unknown
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The Mission Drive-In opened on March 27, 1948 on Roosevelt Avenue at Mission Parkway. The Mission was increased to four screens since then. It was the last remaining drive-in theater in the San Antonio area.

Santikos Theatres, which most recently operated the Mission, announced in March 2007 the theater would not be opening for the 2007 season and its future is now uncertain.

Parts of the theatre were taken down in May 2009 in preperation for redevelopment. However the structure and its massive screen will remain, as will its marquee. Open park space will allow for screenings of classic movies and other performances amid the coming offices and commercial development of the site.
Contributed by Oscar Gloria, Jr.

YOUR COMMENTS

 
How do I get your schudel for your movie listings for Mission Drive-In in San Antonio Texas?
posted by Mission Drive-In on Nov 14, 2003 at 9:15pm
Go to the website, www.santikos.com, and they should have the listing. Currenly they are closed for the season and will open March 1st.
posted by melissasatx on Jan 6, 2004 at 10:03pm
one thing i would like to point out is when santikos took it back from cinemark they remodled the conncession stant and cleaned the place up very well before it had over grown weeds and was in need of a paint job
barry lee
posted by Barry Lee on Dec 21, 2004 at 1:40am
Here is a photo of the Mission 4 Drive-In in San Antonio.
posted by Lost Memory on Mar 18, 2006 at 3:59pm
The Mission opened as a single screen theatre in 1948. In the late 50s it was converted to a twin, and in 1978 two more screens were added. The original screen tower style was like many Texas drive ins built by the original owner. The San Antonio Alamo drive in's screen tower was a mirror image of the Mission's. The original mural on the Mission Drive in's tower was a painting of Mission San Jose with the bells in San Jose animated with swaying neon.
posted by outafocus on Jul 3, 2006 at 7:13am
The mission is closed for 07 season and the way it is looking the only thing the mission will be seeing are bulldozers.
posted by Superdude on Mar 20, 2007 at 9:47pm
i would like to know if there is anything being done to presever the hoistory of the mission 4 drive in and if there anything ppl from san antonio can do to help save the mission and help getting it fix and clean up the drive bring alot to the community of san antonio and has alot of values Memories with alot of people and family i wud like to help in protecting wat the dive in movies bring to san antonio i think san antonio in all wud appericate it running back up again just let me know if there any thing ppl can do to help thank you .
posted by bubbles on Apr 19, 2007 at 1:58pm
Good News santikos said today that the mission will be reopening this august 24th with second run double features on two screens only and that the conncession stand will be selling only drinks popcorn and candy. The Theatre is will charge $5.00 per car load and will close for the season at the end of november. There is still damage to the concession stand and santikos did say that they did not know if the mission would reopen next spring or not.
posted by Superdude on Aug 21, 2007 at 11:31am
I feel like driving out there just to support it. Of course it's 1858 miles from my front door, but so what.
posted by saps on Aug 21, 2007 at 12:13pm
The 9 pm news tonight reported that Santikos sold out tonight with more than 1,000 cars showing up!
posted by sarider on Aug 24, 2007 at 7:43pm
Ksat 12 was live at the mission and speaking from someone who is in the business i figured it would sell out this weekend but the real test will be what kind of numbers can the drive in bring in overall for the entire fall season. The mission suffered alot of damage like the projectors were more than likely almost completly destroyed scope lens alone cost alot used about $500.00. So what i am trying to say is unless over the fall season if customers show up in droves the the mission is saved if say in a month they can only say sell half of what they are doing this weekend then more than likely the mission will be closed for good cause without a regular steady turn out for santikos to recover alot of the loses they just cant keep it open and i wouldnt blame them.
posted by Superdude on Aug 24, 2007 at 8:49pm
mission4 is now closed for the season.
posted by Superdude on Sep 29, 2007 at 12:07am
well bad news today ksat 12 is reporting that the city of san antonio is wanting to puchase the drive in and demolish it in order to build a libary and section 8 housing. the city will take it up at a the next meeting this thursday. Say goodbye to the cities last drive in!
posted by Superdude on Oct 9, 2007 at 10:23am
Sorry to say that santikos has already signed a the paperwork with the city to purchase it for 3 million the only thing standing in the way now is for the city to vote on thrursday for appoval of the deal and then the mission will be torn down!
posted by Superdude on Oct 10, 2007 at 1:43pm
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posted by Superdude on Oct 10, 2007 at 1:44pm
i am so mad because of all this bull**** so now wat?
posted by nikkistar on Oct 10, 2007 at 11:49pm
Its a done deal the city approved the contract to by the old gal and the city did say that they were going to tear her down!
posted by Superdude on Oct 11, 2007 at 1:26pm
Here is a recent night view.

posted by Lost Memory on Nov 15, 2007 at 10:01am
Drive-ins.com has some additional photos:
http://tinyurl.com/2jo8y5

Good news in September 2007, followed by bad news as posted on 10/11/07:
http://tinyurl.com/2svfc6
posted by ken mc on Feb 11, 2008 at 4:36pm
SHAME!! I was just asking about this on another part of the site (link below). So is it gone? SO many good memories there, and i'm only in my early 20's. This truly saddens me. I wish there was something we could have done. I would have loved to go there regularly, but it became increasingly difficult as I live on the far Northside of San Antonio and you all know of the current gas/economical downward spiral...
Having said that, I guess it's understandable. RIP!

I now go to the Paladium at The Rim off La Cantera as it is much closer to home, and while it is an extremely nice theatre, it's not quite as special as The Mission Drive-In was; but then again, not many things are these days!

Lovely photos Lost Memory! Quite a fitting username as well.

http://cinematreasures.org/news/11199_0_1_0_C/

posted by conky on Jun 16, 2008 at 12:17am
Thanks Conky. I like your "name" too. Here are a few more photos.

posted by Lost Memory on Sep 29, 2008 at 12:10pm
Here is a November 2008 article about re-use:
http://tinyurl.com/5q9zo9
posted by ken mc on Nov 23, 2008 at 6:57pm
Interesting. Thanks.

posted by Lost Memory on Nov 23, 2008 at 7:02pm
This is a 2009 photo.

posted by Lost Memory on Feb 23, 2009 at 6:21pm
some more photos of the old mission 4 drive-in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrchriscornwell/2275988289/
posted by cinemadude87 on Jun 13, 2009 at 9:32pm
some more photos here that might be intresting to everyone that is into drive-in.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrchriscornwell/2275989105/in/photostream/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrchriscornwell/2276780800/in/photostream/
posted by cinemadude87 on Jun 13, 2009 at 9:35pm
This theatre with the 4 screens was quite unusual. Loved the night photo with the lighted glass and stars above in a Texas sky.
posted by Patsy on Sep 23, 2009 at 4:05pm
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