Twin Sheppard Drive-In
4014 Old Iowa Park Road,
Wichita Falls,
TX
76305
4014 Old Iowa Park Road,
Wichita Falls,
TX
76305
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and renamed Twin Sheppard Drive-In on March 22nd, 1952.
This reopened as the Sheppard Drive-In on March 16th, 1951. Another ad posted.
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.”
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.