Longhorn Drive-In
2980 US Highway-82 W,
New Boston,
TX
75570
2980 US Highway-82 W,
New Boston,
TX
75570
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The Longhorn advertised in the 1976 New Boston High School yearbook, noting that it was on “Hwy. 8 North of IH 30”. The drive-in also said it was owned and operated “by the Scotts.” Its sign showed a bull facing traffic.
CinemaTour.com included the Longhorn Drive-In Theater, “Highway 82 W,” under New Boston.
As part of a 2006 column in the Baxter Bulletin (Mountain Home AR), Sonny Garrett reminisced about the drive-ins of his youth. “I remember the 67 Drive-In at Texarkana (on the Arkansas side), the Longhorn Drive-In at New Boston down the road from DeKalb and, from my college days, the Trail Drive-In at Greenville, Texas.”
This drive-in apparently was never included in the Motion Picture Almanac.
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CinemaTour.com may be confusing the Longhorn with the Starlite Drive-In, which was on US HWY-82 West.
As with 50sSnipes, I see no evidence of a drive-in on TX-8, north of HWY 30 in the 1970 or 1984 aerials.
If I had to guess, the 1984 aerial shows the Tex Inn on TX-8, just north of HWY 30 on the east side. The parking area looks mighty big given the size of the hotel. But that is just a guess.
That’s what I was thinking too. Judging by the photo of its unique marquee, it may’ve been a short-lived drive-in.
I’ve moved my remarks and notes to the new “Red River Drive-In” page here. Since I noticed a second drive-in on the Texas side in the 1960 topo map, my guess is that 7th Street drive-in was named Red River, leaving the New Boston Road drive-in’s name still unknown to me. Maybe it was the Joy, explaining this weird note:
Boxoffice, June 3, 1963: “Joy’s Theatres closed the Joy Drive-In, Texarkana, and reopened the Red River Drive-In, rechristened the Joy”