Jet Drive-In
Mertzon Highway,
San Angelo,
TX
76903
Mertzon Highway,
San Angelo,
TX
76903
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The Jet Drive-in opened in the mid-1950’s by Rowley United, 1967 thru closing in the mid-1970’s it was operated by United Artists. Car capacity was listed at 500. From what I found it was demolished in 1993.
Right off Mertzon Hwy (67) and Southwest Blvd looks like the remains of a portion of a drive-in. Look just to the left of the State Farm Insurance label and behind the Cinemark Tinseltown near the center of the screen and you can barely make out some partial rows.
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Mike Rivest’s site may list this as the Jac drive-in….
From 1961 a double feature movie ad from the Jet Drive-In in San Angelo.
Thanks for the ads Don.
Historic aerial photos from Earth Explorer and USGS indicate there were two drive-ins along Mertzon Hwy (which is now called Sherwood Way) south of San Angelo, that were less than a mile away from each other on opposite sides of the road.
A single screen drive-in shown below in a 1954 aerial photo is on the west side of the road, a little to the south of Arden Rd:
http://flic.kr/p/94rG1c
The second drive-in further south was not visible at the time of the above aerial photo, but is visible as a twin in the 1972 aerial shown below:
http://flic.kr/p/94rG2e
The single screen drive-in near Arden Road I believe was the Jet, and the newer one just to the south of Southwest Blvd was known as the Angelo Twin.
I am in the process of confirming the above information with people who are local to San Angelo.
If above is correct, The Jet was at approx. 3700 Sherwood Way. Part of which is now Walgreens.
The Twin would have been approx. 4400 Sherwood Way. The back of the shopping center at the corner of Sherwood & Southwest would have been where the entrance was.