Bandera Drive-In
11311 Bandera Road,
San Antonio,
TX
78250
11311 Bandera Road,
San Antonio,
TX
78250
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This 500 car-capacity ozoner closed in the late 1960’s. It is now the site of a Target store.
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Chuck Van Bibber
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In reality, this theater was closed sometime around 1977. As a boy, I used to live on Silvertip Dr. in San Antonio and would see the screen at night and occasionaly look at the screen with bionoculars. Even then, the picture was small and I quit doing that. Anyway, the place was torn down in ‘77 and a Fed-Mart was constucted in its place. Target took over the place in the mid 80s and that outlet closed its doors when a new SuperTarget was built a few miles away in 2002. The place, as of this writing, remains vacant
The Bandera Road Drive In’s original screen was all aluminum and was silver in color. The Bandera had excellent light on the screen because of this. The screen acted as part a wall for the building used for storage. In 1973 or so, a fire erupted in the screen tower building, and was destroyed. The screen actually melted from the heat! What was left was quickly demolished and hauled away, and a flat, white painted steel screen with exposed beams in the back was erected. When the Bandera Road closed, the new screen was disassembled and stored behind the East screen at the San Pedro Outdoor where it laid until the San Pedro itself was demolished.
Here is a September 1965 ad from the San Antonio Express:
http://tinyurl.com/yb8b3cg