Post Oak Drive-In
2900 Post Oak Boulevard,
Houston,
TX
77056
2900 Post Oak Boulevard,
Houston,
TX
77056
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The Post Oak Drive-In has quite a story behind it. Its original location at 2900 Post Oak Road opened at 7:00 p.m. on March 14, 1951. The opening night double feature was “Pretty Baby” with Dennis Morgan and Betsy Drake, plus “The Grass Is Always Greener” with Chill Wills. It had a capacity for 620 cars.
The story goes that in early-1960, the land on which the drive-in stood was sold to developers. The drive-in was dismantled, moved by house movers, and rebuilt at 1255 North Post Oak Road. Billed as the "New Post Oak Drive-In", it reopened on June 16, 1960. The opening night double feature (this time)was “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” with Doris Day and David Niven, plus “Man on a String” with Ernest Borgnine and Kerwin Mathews.
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Ken,
Sorry I don’t remember you. Can you tell me something about yourself or about anybody you worked with. Have you been able to stay in contact with anyone from that time frame. It had been 7 years since I posted so I was surprised to get a notification.
What was built at the original drive-in location?
KPRC Television Station.
@Arriens Was the building on the middle right a wax museum?
Visible in the 1953 and 1957 Historic Aerials at it’s original location at 2900 Post Oak. Visible in the 1962 and 1964 Historic Aerials at the new N. Post Oak site as a single screen. 1966 and 1973 Historic Aerials has it as a twin. Gone by 1981.
The June 4, 1962 issue of Boxoffice ran a two-page article, with plenty of photos, of the 36-hole movie-themed mini golf offered at the Post Oak. “How to bring the people back to the theatre … That was the question bothering movieman Carroll Lewis jr., Post Oak Drive-In Theatre in Houston in 1961. … He and Charlie Hillis, manager of Post Oak, chose movies to be represented which would give them the best chance for colorful replicas for exhibit.”
Grand opening ads posted.
I worked at the Movieland Golf Course the summer of 1963. rivest266 did you post the Boxoffice ad? Where can I find it?
The Feb. 6, 1961 Modern Theatre section of Boxoffice magazine included a lengthy article about the process of moving the Post Oak three miles north of its original location, which closed at the end of November 1959. The 96x28-foot screen tower was broken down into three sections and transported by house movers. Speaker posts were chipped out of the concrete and were spaced farther apart - 20 feet instead of 17 feet. The playground used the old equipment but in a larger area. At the concession stand, the old pink face brick was discarded for cement blocks. The full moving project cost over $150,000. The Post Oak reopened in June 1960.
1962 box office magazine at https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/27247447/boxoffice-june041962