Cowtown Drive-In
2245 Jacksboro Highway,
Fort Worth,
TX
76114
2245 Jacksboro Highway,
Fort Worth,
TX
76114
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The site is now a Walmart supwrcenter, a bank(First Convenience Bank), a restaurant(Subway), 2 money transfer companys(Coinstar and Moneygram), and a pharmacy(Walmart Pharmacy).
The Cowtown closed playing Spanish language films and also hosting a weekend flea market in 1984.
Reopened on 1/7/1966 with “Duel at Diablo”, “Mclintock” and “Wild guitar”.
The Aug. 1, 1960 issue of Boxoffice reported that one Saturday evening, a car slammed into the box office, breaking the leg of the off-duty police officer working there and trapping manager Bill Corbell inside. Corbell worked through the pain to finish selling tickets for the night, and later x-rays revealed that he had suffered a fractured pelvis. At the time of the article, the policeman was still in the hospital but Corbell had been released.
Closed in 1964 and reopened on July 1st, 1966. Another ad posted.
This opened on September 2nd, 1950. Grand opening ad in the photo section.
Mr. Vogel, your URL does not work. Has it changed.
BIG KUDOS to whomever posted the above pic of the Cowtown Drive-In Theatre! Along with the matching nighttime shot, the other daytime shot at the ‘Fort Worth…the Way We Were’ website, and the shot in Boxoffice Magazine, it has become the most photographed drive-in theatre in Fort Worth. If I may ask, where was it found? Thanks, again!
Great name for a drive-in in Texas.
There is an article about the Cowtown Drive-In in the February 3, 1951, issue of Boxoffice. It was owned by Southwest Theatres, a company headed by C. A. Richter, who had opened the first drive-in in Texas in the late 1930s.
The Cowtown Drive-In was designed by Harvey A. Jordan, who was also the contractor. The owners and the designer posed in front of the screen tower for a photo that appeared as the frontispiece of the Modern Theatre section of the same issue of Boxoffice.
Here is a 1956 aerial view:
http://tinyurl.com/yeqmb75
Here is a 1950 photo:
http://tinyurl.com/lgr74u
It was out on Jacksboro Hwy.(199), and had a huge Longhorn steer on the screen tower. Last time I was there it was an auto-auction or wrecking yard type business.