Parkaire Drive-In

MichaelKilgore on November 6, 2019 at 9:36 am

This is the first I’ve heard of this brand of shenanigans. Did this really happen elsewhere, or was it a Fort Worth thing?

Billboard, March 6, 1954: “A new menace has come to plague Texas drive-in operators. Its still the teen-agers who before made off with speakers. Now, according to Earl Powell, manager of Parkaire Drive-In, Fort Worth, the vogue is for youngsters to form a motorcade of about 20 cars and make a lightning-like charge on the drive-in. Just after the last show starts and theater personnel have left their posts, the motorcade pounces down on the drive-in and to speed around the theater, driving bumper-to-bumper, and spraying gravel into the windshields of cars viewing the film while keeping their horns blowing.”

rivest266 on June 24, 2018 at 3:56 pm

This opened on March 15th, 1951. Grand opening ad in the photo section.