Twin Sheppard Drive-In

4018 Old Iowa Park Road,
Wichita Falls, TX 76305

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Kenmore
Kenmore on June 9, 2025 at 8:17 pm

A closer address is 4018 Old Iowa Park Rd, Wichita Falls, TX.

Google Maps has updated their addresses and this puts it right in the middle of the property.

Today, only the outline and ramps remain, mostly on the north side. Along with the foundation for the projector booth/concession stand.

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rivest266
rivest266 on November 26, 2021 at 3:53 pm

and renamed Twin Sheppard Drive-In on March 22nd, 1952.

rivest266
rivest266 on November 26, 2021 at 3:29 pm

This reopened as the Sheppard Drive-In on March 16th, 1951. Another ad posted.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on February 12, 2021 at 10:10 am

Boxoffice, April 21, 1951: “The Sheppard Drive-In, formerly the Open-Air Drive-In, has opened after complete remodeling. It is west of the city on the Iowa Park road. Charles W. Weisenburg is owner. A mural of a B-36 is on the front and there is a new marquee. There are new ramps, RCA equipment, new wiring, lights on every speaker post and curb lights. There are spaces for 400 cars, doubled capacity over last year.”

Kenmore
Kenmore on April 3, 2017 at 10:48 am

If it did close at the end of 1960, it would make this one of the oldest relics of a drive-in that still exists in some fashion.

Most former drive-ins have their land used for other purposes (housing for example) or in a few cases plowed over.

The oldest remains of a dead drive-in I’ve found so far is in Ardmore, OK. The Starlite drive-in closed in 1954 and the ramps are still visible.