Indian Drive-In
5th Street and E. Iowa Street,
Holbrook,
AZ
86025
5th Street and E. Iowa Street,
Holbrook,
AZ
86025
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Located just south of Route 66 to the south of the 66 Drive-In and the Western Star Drive-In, The Indian Drive-In was opened by 1954 and was still open in 1957, but had closed by 1958.
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Ken Roe
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The street below the drive-in is E. Iowa.
I’m not sure that is the location of the drive-in. The fan-shaped feature shown in the photo looks like a softball field, not a drive-in.
There is no screen or projector booth, but there appears to be a backstop. A baseball field and softball field appear in roughly the same location in a 1983 aerial.
I enjoy being proven wrong, but I don’t believe this one. I’ve done a lot of research in Holbrook, and I’ve had some help from the Navajo County Historial Society. Despite hard digging into back issues of the Holbrook Tribune News, we have found zero evidence of any drive-ins other than the two that briefly battled it out in 1955 - the 66 and the Western Star.
It’s difficult to prove a negative, but I would point you to Holbrook’s 1957 topo map, viewable at HistoricAerials.com. That map shows outlines for the then-operating 66 and the closed Western Star, but no drive-ins on Iowa Street.
As the guy who wrote the book, twice, of the history of every drive-in that ever existed on Route 66, I’ve seen plenty of erratic, random mentions of drive-ins that were really just ideas, or that were built somewhere else. I would appreciate learning the sources for the belief that Holbrook had a third drive-in.