Garland Road Drive-In
3159 South Garland Avenue,
Garland,
TX
75041
3159 South Garland Avenue,
Garland,
TX
75041
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The Garland Road Drive-In was in a very popular location. It had customers coming from Dallas and Garland to watch sometimes prime movies.
It was at the same location as the newer multi-screen Apollo Drive-In. The Apollo Drive-In has been gone for many years. That whole triangular area was the new Hyper Mart buit by Sam Walton. Later it was renamed Walmart.
I think the Busbys owned the Garland Road Drive-In, the Plaza and Texan Theaters in the 1950’s.
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In the early sixties, this drive-in was owned by Leon Theaters of Abilene, TX. C.D. Leon was the owner. Leon Theaters also owned the Grande in Brownsville and the Crawford in El Paso at that time. Capacity of the Garland was 600 cars per the 1963 motion picture almanac.
April 7th, 1950 grand opening ad is at View link
Just read about the Apollo in Garland Tx. Saw a lot of movies there. I believe it was owned by Gordon McLendon, same person who owned the Gemini not too far from it in Dallas.
From 1963 a Dallas Area drive in theater ad.
The Garland Rd Drive In eventually became the Apollo Drive In Theatre. The Apollo, owned by the McLendon family was a Twin screen drive in. (Garland Rd was a single Screen). The Apollo was demolished to make way for the new concept store, Hyper-Mart. Changing to Wal-Mart, this store eventually closed. A couple of years ago, the structure was still sitting idle. At one time there was a possible rumor of the Ford Dealership taking over the structure but there’s no foundation to that rumor.. Now would be the time to rebuild another Drive In Theatre there.. Just a thought.