Osage Drive-In

4215 S. Staples Street,
Corpus Christi, TX 78412

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Kenmore
Kenmore on December 27, 2022 at 1:49 pm

A closer address is 4215 S Staples St, Corpus Christi, TX.

A 1956 aerial shows a drive-in at this location which is now the Covenant Baptist Church.

A 1960 aerial shows the drive-in demolished. Today, there is no trace of the drive-in remaining.

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dallasmovietheaters
dallasmovietheaters on September 22, 2021 at 10:52 pm

The Osage Drive-In ends its run with a Labor Day weekend triple feature of “Nature Girl and the Slaver,” “The Queen of Sheeba” and “The Alligator People” on September 5, 1960 with the drive-in began to be dismantled the next day.

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on November 27, 2020 at 11:37 pm

Does this train survive someplace else now?

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on November 27, 2020 at 11:36 pm

The train track at this drive-in was two miles long(huge drive-in site?). Did the entrance and exit roads go across the train tracks?

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on November 27, 2020 at 11:28 pm

Formal opening on 8/5/1952 with a Tom and Jerry cartoon carnival and “Frontier gal”. Why the name Osage?

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on November 27, 2020 at 11:24 pm

Also opened with a cartoon(not named) and “Savage splendor”.

rivest266
rivest266 on November 27, 2020 at 1:53 pm

closed 1960

rivest266
rivest266 on November 27, 2020 at 12:35 pm

Opened on March 16th, 1951. Grand opening ad posted.

Yakima1
Yakima1 on May 8, 2011 at 2:26 am

Address: 4841 Staples at Everhart (4801 S. Staples today) | Capacity: 550 cars | Opened: Thursday Mar 16, 1951 | First Feature: “Frenchie” starring Joel McCrea, Shelley Winters | Owner / Builder: Chester Kyle and Lester Miller | Closed: Monday Sep 5, 1960 (Last ad in Caller) | Currently (2010): Frost Bank and BMW of Corpus Christi | Chester Kyle was part owner of the Kinsgville drive-ins with a different partner. He opened this drive-in in Mar 1951 and surprisingly sold out to Corpus Christi Theaters a little more than 6 months later. This would be the first drive-in for CC Theaters who held all of the many indoor theaters in Corpus. They closed down for several weeks in the Spring of 1952 while they remodeled and upgraded this very new theater adding a train track around the perimeter for their new attraction, a replica of the Missouri-Pacific streamliner “The Texas Eagle”. The ad logo changed from the Indian Chief’s head to The Texas Eagle Train. The grand re-opening was May 8, 1952.

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