Drive-In East

The address would’ve been around 2632 E. Broadway.

Yesterday I phoned a NYC acquaintance who had been stationed at Altus Air Force Base during the late 1970’s. She considered the town of Altus an isolated bore, but also remembered the Drive-In-East as a fine example of High Tech design.
She thought probably this theatre dated back to the 1940’s, and had been way ahead of its time in its High Tech styling. Construction of screen tower, boxoffice, concession stand, and fencing consisted of cubes (made of slim pipe) by which sheet metal was hung to form structure.
She also stated that it was somewhat surreal to look at this drive-in because by that time RKO had given up maintenance of their property, and those stylistic drive-in pavilions were fast becoming run down, overgrown with weeds, at just the time when High Tech design was fast becoming all the rage in popularity.