Hi-Ho Drive-In
US Route 82,
Gainesville,
TX
76240
US Route 82,
Gainesville,
TX
76240
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L.C. Dennis opened the HI-Ho Drive-In with a grand opening celebration June 5, 1948. Opening night included a live performance by the Harmony Boys and a screening of “Homestretch” starring Cornel Wilde. The Hi-Ho Drive-In closed in the 1977.
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Lost Memory, Billy Holcomb / Don Lewis / Billy Smith
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This website has some pictures of the Hi-Ho Drive-In.
The Hi-Ho Drive-In had a car capacity of 300 cars and was operated by Frontier Theatres, Inc. out of Dallas, Texas.
No trace remains of the former Hi-Ho Drive-In. A bowling alley and Walmart now occupy this property.
Movie ads from 1951 and 1953 for the Hi-Ho Drive-In here and here in Gainsville Texas.
Views of the Hi-Ho Drive in here and here and view of former snack barhere.
The projection booth / snack bar building stands behind the Wagon Wheel cafe about a mile east of walmart.
Skip thanks for the update on the Hi Ho.
..I had the theater behind the Trails End,
which is next door to the Wagon Wheel Inn.
I was close, but wrong thanks billy h. Don Lewis. Billy Smith
Tuesday Only 80 cents a car load what a deal!
I did some checking 03-04-2011, and found a prjectionist and his daughter, and they both confirmed the theater was on the site of the now Trails End Restaurant.
The Snack bar is intact , and survives, and can be seen on Don Lewis
Vanishing Theater image site.
Billy H
Don,great pictures.thank you so much for putting them on CT.