Tower Drive-In

On July 26, 1952, Billboard reported, “The Tower Drive-In, the town’s first, has been opened at Henrietta, Tex., by Jim Bailey. The drive-in has a 200-car capacity".

The only drive-in for Henrietta in the 1955 Motion Picture Almanac was the Tower Drive-In, capacity 184, owner Joe Bailey. The 1956 MPA listed both the Tower Drive-In, same details, and the Rietta Drive-In, no details. The 1957-59 editions still listed both, and the Tower Drive-In dropped off in 1960.

A note in the January 30, 1963 issue of Motion Picture Exhibitor indicated that the Rietta Drive-In had been built on the opposite side of town than the Tower Drive-In, and that the Rietta Drive-In’s owner had purchased the former Tower Drive-In site and built a garage and used car lot there. A 1971 aerial photo shows such a lot occupying the place where a drive-in had been in a 1954 photo. Today, a grocery store occupies the site.

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