Twin Falls Drive-In
1450 Shepherd Access Road,
Wichita Falls,
TX
76306
1450 Shepherd Access Road,
Wichita Falls,
TX
76306
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The Falls drive-in became the Twin Falls Drive-In on July 11th, 1950. Another ad posted.
Grand opening ad posted.
Boxoffice, Sept. 25, 1948: “WICHITA FALLS, TEX. - John Blocker has begun construction on the Falls Drive-In on the outskirts of the city and plans to open the ozoner sometime next month. Blocker built and opened the Yucca Drive-In this summer at Clovis, N. M., but sold out to Charles C. Wolf. Blocker has been in show business in Texas for a number of years. He once owned and operated the Texas in Abilene, then a night club at Lubbock and from there he went to Clovis.”
The drive in location has been developed into more baseball/softball fields since 2007. The address, 1450 Shepherd Access Road is correct.
I remember the old Grant Street drive in theater, as my very first memory ever of attending a movie. We lived only a few blocks away on Baltimore Rd. I must have been between around 2 years old, as it was 1964-65 timeframe. The opening cartoon movie was Disney’s Fantasia, I have no idea what the main movie was but I remember having wierd nightmares as a child about all the marching brooms (LoL!) and we were in my dad’s pink Rambler station wagon with fold-down seats. I also saw movies as a child at the Seymour drive in theater. The very last movie played there at the Seymour before it closed down, if I remember correctly, was “On a Clear Day You Can See Forever” in summer of 1970. I watched it with my mother and father. The last movie I watched at the Twin Falls before it closed down was “Alien” in 1979.
My recollection is of at least three drive-in theaters in Wichita Falls. One on the north side—that would be Sheppard Access; one on the southwest side—that would be at Seymour Highway and Old Seymour Rd.; and one on Grant Street, which also had some indoor seating. And it seems as though there might even have been a fourth at some point, though I can’t remember where it was.
PLEASE UPDATE ADDRESS TO 1122 Sheppard Access Road Wichita Falls, TX 76306. NOW LOCK & ROLL STORAGE.
NYozoner is correct. This location is wrong. The Twin Falls was on Sheppard Access Rd. just north of Old Iowa Park Rd. Went there many times in my youth. Here is an address of a current business just a few hundred yards south of where the drive in entrance was.
1122 Sheppard Access Road Wichita Falls, TX 76306
1975 another strange booking.Great ad.Have a Falls Drive-in there in 1956,wonder if it had the name changed.
Southwest Pkwy & Spring Shadow Dr, Wichita Falls, TX 76310
The address above will map to the location of the drive-in.
Here is a 1970 aerial photo of the drive-in, courtesy of Earth Explorer and USGS:
http://flic.kr/p/95g9Kg
This item gives an approximate address. There is an auto salvage yard at that location now.
http://tinyurl.com/ybk2tsf
From 1975, a movie ad for the Twin Falls Drive In Theater in Wichita Falls.