Texas Drive-In
Texas 202,
Beeville,
TX
78102
Texas 202,
Beeville,
TX
78102
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Previously operated by: Hall Industries Theaters
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Located south of town. The Texas Drive-In opened in 1954 and was operated by A.M. Gaines. It was soon taken over by Hall Industries Theaters. The Texas Drive-In closed in 1958.
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Ken Roe
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Billboard, July 17, 1954: “A. M. Gaines. owner of Bronco Drive-In, Beeville, Tex., has announced he will build a second drive-in on the Refugio Highway near that city. Gaines will install wide screens in both theaters.”
The highway to Refugio is Texas 202, but even in a 1974 USGS aerial, I can’t find a trace of a drive-in. My guesses would be either the housing development that starts at 2101 Lexington Rd, or where the new US 181 now crosses 202. Neither was there in a 1956 topo map but both were there in the 1974 aerial.
Billboard, Oct. 11, 1954: “A. M. Gaines is owner and operator of the newly opened Texan Drive-In Theater, Beeville, Tex.”
HistoricAerials.com must have added its 1958 aerial photo of Beeville since my posts here five years ago. It now clearly shows the drive-in at 1608 S Washington St (AKA Texas 202), where a storage facility sits today.