Sahara Drive-In
5714 I-20 Frontage Road,
Big Spring,
TX
79720
5714 I-20 Frontage Road,
Big Spring,
TX
79720
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Previous Names: Sahara Twin Screen Drive-In
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The Sahara Twin Screen Drive-In was opened March 1, 1956. It was renamed the ‘Big Tex Drive-In’ when it appeared in the opening scenes of the 1969 film “Midnight Cowboy”.
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Still barely, barely visible, but there was an old drive-in ½ mile West of the airport in I-20.
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Here’s a photo after it was renamed BIG TEX DRIVE-IN. The landscape behind the screen looks really desolate. This drive-in is apparently long gone.
http://www.drive-ins.com/pictures/txtbigt001.jpg
Thanks Magic for finding this Drive-in and all the pictures.
My brother and I lived in Texas in the summer of 1991 & one day we went looking for this drive in, Midnight Cowboy was our favorite movie. Never did find it, but we found Big Springs Hardware, which Joe Buck walks by at the beginning. The owner of the hardware store said that Jon Voight and some of the crew were amazed that you could walk in any store there and purchase a gun just like anything else with no problems!
This Drive-in was opened on March 1, 1956.
Built and operated by Tom Griffing
Billboard – Mar 17, 1956 – Page 70 https://books.google.com/books?id=8x4EAAAAMBAJ
Address is 5714 I-20 Frontage Rd, Big Spring, TX.
Maybe a better address might be 5710 W. I-20. The Big Spring Humane Society is on the back part of the drive in property.
5714 I-20 Frontage Rd Big Spring, TX 79720 Is the correct address.
5710 puts you are wrong side of the road.
Uploaded aerial from 1965..it looks it is a twin when first opened and later on it is just a single.
Okay, just was going by what the Humane Society’s address was on the property.
40 years later Ralph is still trying to clean all of those dirty dishes that Joe Buck left with him at Miller’s Restaurant.