Cole-Anna Drive-In
300 Santa Anna Avenue,
Coleman,
TX
76834
300 Santa Anna Avenue,
Coleman,
TX
76834
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The Cole-Anna Drive-In was opened in May 1952 when it was operated by R. Duus. Closed, demolished and long gone, the Cole-Anna Drive-In was named after Coleman and nearby Santa Anna.
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This is from the Abilene Reporter-News on 3/15/52:
COLEMAN. March 14.-The new 400-speaker Cole-Anna Drive-In Theater, in south Coleman, had its formal opening Friday night. Its plant includes a screen 72 feet wide and 52 feet high, of brick construction, 400 in-car speakers and the latest in sound equipment.
Approx. address for this drive-in was 300 Santa Anna Avenue.
Adding a name, Billboard, May 24, 1952: “Roland Duss has opened the new Cole-Anna Drive-In at Santa Ana (sic), Tex. Spot is located between Coleman, where Duss operates the Oak Drive-In, and Santa Anna.
Coleman Democrat on July 29, 1969 shows that Roland Duss established both of the Coleman Drive-in theaters. He sold the Drive-ins to Carlton Mann of Mineral Wells in 1969. The article mentions that Roland Duss built the Oak Drive-in and later added the Cole-Anna and then purchased the downtown theatre, the Rancho.
Mann didn’t own those drive-ins for very long.
Boxoffice, Aug. 10, 1970: “F.W. Pavick has acquired the Cole-Anna Theatre and Oak Drive-In, Coleman, from Carleton H. Mann. The change of ownership became effective July 29”