Circle Drive-In
5806 Interstate 27,
Lubbock,
TX
79404
5806 Interstate 27,
Lubbock,
TX
79404
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irpworks was right about an amazing wealth of Lubbock theater pictures available, but his link no longer works. What you need to look for is the Winston Reeves Photograph Collection at Texas Tech University. When the link I supplied gets broken by some Tech reshuffling a decade or two from now, at least you’ll know where to look.
Is the motel still there? Is the traffic circle still there?
From Billboard, May 15, 1954: “For the second time in recent weeks vandals with a shotgun shattered the glass marquee of the Circle Drive-In, Lubbock, Tex. Marvin McLarty. owner of the drive-in, has posted a $100 reward for the arrest and conviction of vandals.”
Opened with “knock on any door”.
According to old maps, the site was on the southeast corner of 58th and Avenue Q. Part of the Country Inn and Suites its on the old site. The field just west of it seems to be the rest of that site.
November 29th, 1949 grand opening ad in photo section
Approx. address is now 5806 Interstate 27. It is now Holiday Inn.
A movie ad from 1959 for the Circle Drive In in Lubbock.
Many Lubbock theaters shown. El Capitan; Plaza; Clifton; Lindsey; Cactus; Westerner Drive-In; Corral; Broadway; Midway; Plains Drive-In; Arnett-Benson; Arcadia.
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From the drop-down box choose: Buildings-Commercial-Movie Theaters
Search theatre and drive-in and there are other arial shots of other drive-ins, etc.
ENJOY!
In its last years it showed porn flicks and the former motel just behind it always had many on the second floor walkway watching free – who needed the sound?!
Here is the correct location (the triangle area was the theater):
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58th & Ave. Q
The address has to be wrong. It would be more like the 1500 – 1700 block of 58th. I remember the circle as a little kid. 2517-55th is a neighborhood of houses, and is just west of University Ave. The Circle, was right East of Ave. Q and 58th Street.