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Alamo Drive-In

San Antonio, TX
1428 Austin Highway
, San Antonio, TX, United States
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Status: Closed/Demolished
Screens: Single Screen
Style: Unknown
Function: Unknown
Seats: Unknown
Chain: Unknown
Architect: Unknown
Firm: Unknown
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This 350 car ozoner is long gone and a Wal-Mart has been built on its site.
Contributed by Chuck Van Bibber


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This was the second drive-in to be built in San Antonio, around the very early 1940's. After the Drive-In closed, it was vacant for a few years, then became a flea market that I attended a few time in the late 80's and early 90's. The screen and all was already gone. It didn't last too long and it again closed down for a few more years. Its then when the grocery giant Wal-Mart just recently built a Supercenter on the area that it once stood.

On an unrelated note: The old Seven Oaks Resort that was just next door to the theater was recently burned down by areson. Many movie stars and political people stayed at this once luxury hotel during the 1950's. It was scheduled to be saved and restored to its once glory before the fire, but unfortunately the structure was considered a total loss.
posted by melissasatxs on Mar 16, 2005 at 1:59pm
The Alamo was opened before the advent of in car speakers, and had a large horn type speaker below the screen. This set up made problems with neighbors, and also the people in the back ramps had a sound delay. A cowboy shot on the screen would fall dead off his horse before the people in back heard the shot! The screen was similar ro many Texas drive ins built by Landsman Theatres in the 40s, including the Mission Drive In in San Antonio. There was mural with a neon palm tree on the back of the screen tower building. The Alamo fell into disrepair in it's later years. I worked there it's last summer in 1972. It was demolished in the Fall of 1972. The news filmed the tearing down of the screen. The anchors were cut, and cables were attached to the corners of the screen inside the theatre, and it was just pulled over! It came down in a huge cloud of dust!
posted by outafocus on Jul 4, 2006 at 1:17pm
Here is a 1948 ad from the San Antonio Light:
http://tinyurl.com/39z47l
posted by ken mc on Sep 20, 2007 at 6:59am
The timeline that I found is 1946 to 1972.

posted by Lost Memory on Oct 4, 2008 at 7:36pm
Here is an April 3, 1946 item from the San Antonio Express:

The Alamo Drive-In Theater, built at a cost of $100,000 one mile north on Austin Hwy., will be formally opened Thursday at 7 p.m. Arthur Landsman, manager and co-owner, along with C.A. Richter and E.L. Pack, said the screen, employing a new plaster, provides more clearly defined pictures with realistic depth. Five hundred can be accommodated at the theater, he said.
posted by ken mc on Feb 27, 2009 at 6:23pm
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