The screens at Doc’s Drive In Theatre are small, made of stacked shipping containers. We’ve had too much bad news lately, so it’s great to be able to share something good: A new two-screen drive-in held its grand opening last Friday in Buda TX, and there’s a great video of the place from KXAN, Austin’s News Leader. So now you should go read both of them! Posted in Texas Video: New Drive-In Sprouts In Buda TX There are a few interesting photos in yesterday’s story, including one of the horrific demise of the Jet Drive-In, and the remarks in both articles are well worth reading. But if you’d watched that scene in a movie, you’d never have believed it. The report’s style and a few of the details are different, and since Edgin later thanked me for pointing out Smith’s article, it was probably original, parallel work. In yesterday’s Standard-Times, Alana Edgin also, completely separately, summarized the history of the nine drive-ins that had been active in San Angelo. This morning, my drive-in news sweep gave me a jaw-dropping coincidence. And one of the references to one of those Twin Vues was this page, an April 2009 article by Rick Smith for the San Angelo (TX) Standard-Times, in which he efficiently summarized the nine drive-ins that had once operated there.

Even though the “Twin” part of the name suggests a drive-in that started after the biggest boom times, there were still maybe a half dozen different Twin Vues in one or two words, with or without hyphen. So I figured that name was unusual enough that I could pinpoint where that sign once stood. It was in an ad from a sign company and didn’t indicate where this drive-in was located.

Yesterday I was continuing some research on a drive-in project that’s been consuming a lot of my time, and I ran into a photo of the marquee of the Twin Vue Drive-In. This is a detail of a larger, better photo in the San Angelo Standard-Times Posted in Carload-related, Texas | Leave a reply San Angelo TX Drive-In History – Read It Twice No matter what it showed, I find it a little sad to have to take another drive-in off the active list. That’s the reason why thousands of internet users have clicked on the Apache post over the 9+ years it’s been available. Of course this lack of information about the drive-in led to unsatisfied curiosity. From afar, (I’ve never been to Tyler), the Apache sounded like a place where some folks quietly, maybe anonymously went to enjoy the show.

It didn’t have much on an online presence. The stories I read about the place always involved employees who didn’t want to talk about the owners, and the photos showed a screen with panels coming loose. But while the Fiesta always wears its, uh, heart on its sleeve, the Apache had seemed more furtive. There’s still one adult-film drive-in left in Texas, the Fiesta Drive In Theatre in El Paso.

On March 9, a post on the Apache’s Facebook page said, “Sad to announce the Apache Drive-In Theatre is permanently closed and the property has been sold.” Since that account had previously posted notes about holiday hours and pandemic-era closures, it looks legit, though I haven’t found any other sources to verify the news. It was known for showing “XXX Adult Videos” on the big screen for a small viewing field surrounded by trees. That post was about the Apache Drive-In in Tyler TX.Īs you can tell by its sign, the Apache’s selling point wasn’t its snack bar, manicured grounds, or first-run films. (Please don’t make me count them.) During that time, one in particular stood out as the most visited, the *Most Popular post that’s ever appeared here. Throughout the years, there have been well over a thousand posts here at.

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