Plains Drive-In
Ranch to Market 2020 and N. County Road W,
Odessa,
TX
79764
Ranch to Market 2020 and N. County Road W,
Odessa,
TX
79764
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The Plains Drive-In opened Wednesday June 21, 1950. It was the brainchild of Phil Isley who owned a dozen Dallas theaters and three in California. He was best known as the father of the gorgeous, Academy Award winning actress, Jennifer Jones.
The venture was joined by the Scott Family and within a couple months Isley was gone making the Plains Drive-In a part of the Scott Theater firm. It was in operation until the 1970’s, but became ignored by fans and closed without fanfare nor a whimper from historians.
No one seemed to mind when bulldozers moved in crushing it into oblivion. Today the site is covered by all kinds of businesses, but a few people remember it and were touched by its passing.
Contributed by
Billy Holcomb / Billy Smith / Don Lewis
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Video Independent Theatres was the last to operate this drive-in, from 1960 until it closd.
Ranch to Market 2020 & N County Rd W, Odessa, TX 79764
The above address will map to the proper location of the drive-in.
Below is a 1963 aerial photo for this drive-in, courtesy of Earth Explorer and USGS:
http://flic.kr/p/94Qgtr
This is what you get when you hit the map in the header.
We were not able to locate the address:
Ranch to Market 2020 and N. Country Road W, Odessa, TX 79764 United States
It should read “N. COUNTY Road W.” Not “Country.”
Country = bad mapping.
Someone needs to update the prescription on there glasses…lol :)
As much editing as Ken Roe has to do for CT and as little mistakes that me makes he deserves all the kudos that he can be given. He does a fantastic job so an error now and then can be overlooked.
Oh, I can imagine. I was just pointing out that it should map with the correct spelling. That is why these comment boxes are here, to add information and point out mistakes.
I was just kidding around about the glasses, the eyes start to fail after too many hours in front of the computer. Whoever manages the updates is doing a fantastic job, a little mistake here and there is inevitable.
Ozoner, I understand what you were saying. But if you ever have a problem and contact Ken you will understand what I was saying. He is the only one doing the updates and corrections, and for the number of comments that he has to pan through it is an amazing job that he does. On top of that he has been the biggest contributer to the site for the UK.
Approx. address for this drive-in was 1220 West University Boulevard. The entrance is now Westview Clinic.
From 1950 a photo of the Plains Drive-In in Odessa Texas.