South Park Drive-In
5911 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway,
Beaumont,
TX
77705
5911 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway,
Beaumont,
TX
77705
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Opened on 9/6/1950 with a colour cartoon(not named), “Canadian Pacific” and “The life of Riley”.
Closed 1973.
Opened on June 9th, 1950. Grand opening ad posted.
The Feb. 2, 1952 issue of Boxoffice included a two-page article about South Park’s Kiddyland, which opened in July 1951. It included plenty of photos.
The demolished Drive-In was the Spindletop Drive-In Theatre on Spindletop Drive.
A more accurate address (at least for Google) is 5911 S M L King Jr Pkwy, Beaumont, Texas. It seems that the Port Arthur Road changed names at some point to the MLK. Then, another road was named Port Arthur Road just to make things confusing.
The South Park Drive-In made it at least to 1970. Today, the property has been paved over and appears to be used for storing items. There is no trace of the drive-in remaining apart from its general shape and entrance/exit roads.
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Interestingly enough, a 1959 aerial shows a demolished drive-in on the opposite side of the road. Anyone know what that drive-in was?