183 Drive-In
2014 N. Britain Road,
Irving,
TX
75061
2014 N. Britain Road,
Irving,
TX
75061
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My first job of any kind was in the concession stand at the 183. They were showing THE TRAIN. Worked there for a while before transferring to the Park Plaza Drive-In further west. After work at the 183 some nights, my friends and I would come back and break into the concession stand and sit around eating stale popcorn at one in the morning. Master criminals.
The entrance was just north of 2014 North Britain Road (VIP Finance). Drive time’s actual address is on East Freeway (where the screen was located).
I remember as a young one sitting on the porch of my boys scout hut facing the drive-in screen in early ‘70s. This drive-in taught me about exploitation T & A flicks. The Pam Grier prison flicks. The 'Teachers" and 'Nurses" movies. Oh, how I remember those hot flicks, its weird people seeing mainstream films there. I tear up ever time I drive by the location. What memories!!
Today it looks like the lot is occupied by Drive Time Used Cars & J R’s Auto Services …. Per Google-maps….
RAC
The film: The Thin Blue Line (1988) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096257/ makes numerous references to this theatre
Address should be changed, as current map link takes you to the cloverleaf, several blocks to the west of the Britain Road area.
Theatre closed for good at the end of 1983. Final feature was “Return of the Jedi”.
This Drive-in was operating into the late ‘70’s with the entryway marquee on Britain Rd still up into the late '80’s-early 90’s. My family saw It’s A Mad, Mad, Mad world there in 1963 and in 1972, I was a relief projectionist for a night and ran the double-bill of Joe Kidd and Play Misty For Me.