Eagle Drive-In
Pecos,
TX
79772
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The Eagle Drive-In was owned by Fontier Theaters in the 1960’s. This company owned and managed several other drive-ins around Texas and New Mexico at that time.
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Ken McIntyre
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The drive-in was destroyed by fire in May 1958, according to this lawsuit. Note Mrs. Brown’s possessions included a gun and a wedding dress. Texas is great.
http://tinyurl.com/2y3jhu
I can’t top the wedding dress and a gun comment, but I can add that this drive-in was located to the west of town, on what is now I-20 at the intersection of County Road 201, on the southeast corner. There is no trace of the drive-in left whatsoever.
Here is the aerial photo from 1969, courtesy of Earth Explorer and the USGS:
http://flic.kr/p/94hKos
Same drive-in? Billboard, July 26, 1952: “Al Cook has announced that construction has been started on a new 600-car capacity drive in at Pecos, Tex.”
The 1953-54 Theatre Catalog listed three drive-ins for Pecos. The largest, capacity 461, was the Eagle. That drive-in and the 300-car Sunset were owned by R. I. Payne, Theatre Entrs., Inc.