Texon Drive-In
Texon Road,
Texon,
TX
Texon Road,
Texon,
TX
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The Texon Drive-In was located in the booming town of Texon, TX., southeast of the intersection of Texon Road and Highway 67. It was opened in 1954. The town at one time had as many as 1,200 residents. Strictly an oil boom town, it has withered away to virtually nothing. Last report was there is only 1 partially burned out building (the old scout hut) still standing where the town once stood.
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Intresting story and pictures,bet there are alot of bomm town like that in the Southwest and West.
You can see the impression of the drive-in here:
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Last time I went through town last year there were still 4-5 abandoned buildings still standing, apparently even those are now gone.
Lots of ghost towns around, I’ll bet very few were big enough to have a theater. Anything to keep the oil field employees happy!
Thanks,Hope you find more of these towns.It would great to stumble on an old theatre full of one-sheets.I bet there are still a few around.Good luck.
Most of the theaters I run across in West Texas have been closed for so many years, it’s unlikely anything of value remains inside.
I did get lots of pics of the remaining Texon buildings before they were bulldozed. Sad to think people lived there, in the middle of nowhere. Nice and quiet though.
Well,Here’s hopeing you get lucky one day and find a rare “DRACULA” one sheet.
The drive-in may closed in 1962 when the oil operations finished? The post office closed in 1985.
Billboard, Sept. 4, 1954: “Ford Taylor has announced that a drive-in is being built near Texon, Tex.”
Was this drive-in ever completed?
A 1955 aerial shows the ramps, but no screen or projection booth/concession stand.
A 1968 aerial shows the same thing.
It’s difficult to believe that the screen and projection booth/concession stand would be built and removed along with their foundations while leaving the ramps intact.
There is the possibility of this being a “temporary drive-in”, where the screen and booth for the projector were only temporary in nature. But such drive-ins rarely have ramps.