Stadium Drive-In
2001 Glenbrook Meadows Drive,
Garland,
TX
75040
2001 Glenbrook Meadows Drive,
Garland,
TX
75040
1 person
favorited this theater
Additional Info
Nearby Theaters
From Variety, 1957: “Garland, Tex., August 20.
“New Stadium Drive-In Theatre has been opened here by Bill Boren, former theatre operator in Fort Worth. The ozoner has 566-car capacity. This is the 19th theatre opening for Boren.
“The drive-in is equipped with Century projectors, Strong Super 135 lamps, RCA Photophone sound-heads and Bausch & Lomb anamorphies. The concession stand is a 90 foot combination brick-and-board.”
A spot check of the Garland Daily News on May 11, 1958 shows an advertisement for the Stadium Drive-In (with phone number) next to an advertisement for the Garland Road Drive-In. The Stadium Drive-In was also listed in 1960 Film Daily Year Book, though it was gone by the 1964 edition.
Contributed by
Michael Kilgore
Want to be emailed when a new comment is posted about this theater?
Just login to your account and subscribe to this theater.
Recent comments (view all 2 comments)
I found a drive-in in a 1958 aerial at the present-day address of 2001 Glenbrook Meadows Drive in Garland on the north side. (The only other known Garland drive-in at the time, the Garland Road, was south of town.) Back then it was the middle of an empty field north of town with entry/exit paths from Buckingham Road and Glenbrook Drive.
The drive-in continued to be shown on topo maps through at least 1969, but a 1968 aerial shows the screen gone.
By 1964, the Town and Country had opened on Plano Road just south of its intersection with Forest Lane. This new drive-in may have siphoned business away from the Stadium, or it may have been owned by the same business partners. There is no entry on Cinema Treasures for the Town and Country. It’s past time for someone with more knowledge than I to create one.