Garland Road Drive-In

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.

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.

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.