Apollo Drive-In

3159 S. Garland Avenue,
Garland, TX 75041

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matt54
matt54 on December 24, 2011 at 9:45 pm

Address is still wrong – Apollo’s south screen stood very close to where the single screen tower of the old Garland Rd. Drive-In stood – the address for that theatre (3159 Garland Rd. – at the southern apex of the triangle formed by Garland, Shiloh, and W. Kingsley) is correct; the Apollo’s north screen was way up on Kingsley.

Jcreel58
Jcreel58 on September 24, 2011 at 3:53 pm

I used to take my favorite girl friend here in the late 70’s / this is where I lost my heart to my first love :–)

SiliconSam
SiliconSam on January 22, 2010 at 4:34 pm

Change ZIP in map link in the title to 75041 so that it maps correctly.

HyperMart was a brainchild of Wal-Mart to combine a Wal Mart with a grocery chain (Cullum Companies – AKA Tom Thumb stores) to make a large combination grocery and crap store. I didn’t last long at all. They just started calling them Wal-Mart SuperCenters.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on January 22, 2010 at 4:13 pm

Here is a 1979 aerial view. The 1956 view shows the drive-in when it was one screen.
http://tinyurl.com/y9nzgm5

drivein2001
drivein2001 on July 11, 2009 at 9:14 am

Hyper-mart came in to take over the land. THen, I guess it couldn’t make it so Wal-Mart stepped in. Now, the Wal-Mart has closed. THe building at this time is still vacant. I did a walk around for some photos about a month ago. What a place to NOW put back a Drive In Theatre! RAC
www.flickr.com/photos/racphotography

lostmemory
lostmemory on December 15, 2008 at 11:24 am

Car capacity was 1,800.

JohnnyLong
JohnnyLong on August 12, 2006 at 7:42 am

This was a McClendon Theatre, like all the others with “outer-space” type names which opened in the late 60’s in the Dallas area (Gemimi, Saturn, Astro, etc.). I had friends working the box-offices (two sisters) who used to let me and some of my other friends in free if I would call ahead of time to find out which entrance (Garland Rd. or Jupiter Rd.) one of them would be working that night. This was where I first saw trailers advocating contacting state representatives to keep Texas from having Daylight Savings Time, which began in the spring of 1967—my senior year in high-school. I really think that had more to do with the demise of not only the Apollo but all the drive-ins than Wal-Mart or any other factor; just my opinion.