Hey Matt54 – oh yeah, the vinyl still exists!! Re the above
comments – even as sad as Kingsville looks, I think downtown
Corpus is even worse. I’m not sure how I even stumbled on to
this website, but also can provide some info on the drive-ins
and theaters in Corpus.
Matt54 – I lived in Kingsville until 1978. I don’t know that I ever actually met Bud Piper, but remember Piper Funeral home very well.
The rest of the names look vaguely familiar, but can’t say that I knew any of them. The King was a regular family outing growing up – can remember getting my dad to drive me and my buddies there to see “Woodstock” (old enough to rock, too young to drive – legally) and cringing at sitting next to my dad when Country Joe yelled “Gimme an F!” El Rancho was just Spanish language until the last few years before it closed – they began showing some 2nd run and ‘alternative’ English movies (recall seeing “Wattstax” and Hendrix’s “Rainbow Bridge” there). Still have a few friends there that I keep in touch with – now live in Houston.
Hey matt54 – I never heard of or recall seeing the Hi-Way
Drive-In. But if the post above from SiliconSam is correct
and it ‘disappeared’ by 1961, that could explain why as I was
born in 1956 and guess I wasn’t taken to a drive-in until I was
a bit more ‘cooperative’.
The Brahma was at 77 (14th Street) & Ailsie and was torn down sometime in the early 60’s. Remember that a Kroger eventually got built on that property. The King was on North 77 (14th Street), near where it joined 6th Street and went on to Bishop. It was next to the old Wilcox Furniture and the Bowling Alley (later the Crimson Palace)and St. Martin’s KC Hall. El Rancho was on E Santa Gertrudis, just about a block east of 14th Street on the south side of the street.
The Rialto Theater sat where the Kleberg Bank is located today.
Hey Matt54 – oh yeah, the vinyl still exists!! Re the above
comments – even as sad as Kingsville looks, I think downtown
Corpus is even worse. I’m not sure how I even stumbled on to
this website, but also can provide some info on the drive-ins
and theaters in Corpus.
Matt54 – I lived in Kingsville until 1978. I don’t know that I ever actually met Bud Piper, but remember Piper Funeral home very well.
The rest of the names look vaguely familiar, but can’t say that I knew any of them. The King was a regular family outing growing up – can remember getting my dad to drive me and my buddies there to see “Woodstock” (old enough to rock, too young to drive – legally) and cringing at sitting next to my dad when Country Joe yelled “Gimme an F!” El Rancho was just Spanish language until the last few years before it closed – they began showing some 2nd run and ‘alternative’ English movies (recall seeing “Wattstax” and Hendrix’s “Rainbow Bridge” there). Still have a few friends there that I keep in touch with – now live in Houston.
Hey matt54 – I never heard of or recall seeing the Hi-Way
Drive-In. But if the post above from SiliconSam is correct
and it ‘disappeared’ by 1961, that could explain why as I was
born in 1956 and guess I wasn’t taken to a drive-in until I was
a bit more ‘cooperative’.
The Brahma was at 77 (14th Street) & Ailsie and was torn down sometime in the early 60’s. Remember that a Kroger eventually got built on that property. The King was on North 77 (14th Street), near where it joined 6th Street and went on to Bishop. It was next to the old Wilcox Furniture and the Bowling Alley (later the Crimson Palace)and St. Martin’s KC Hall. El Rancho was on E Santa Gertrudis, just about a block east of 14th Street on the south side of the street.
The Rialto Theater sat where the Kleberg Bank is located today.