Trail Drive-In
1581 Crowley Rayne Highway,
Crowley,
LA
70526
1581 Crowley Rayne Highway,
Crowley,
LA
70526
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A closer address is 1581 Crowley Rayne Hwy, Crowley, LA.
This places it around where the entrance roads used to be. Today, the property is owned by Clark Systems with no trace of the drive-in remaining.
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Grand opening ad
Trail Drive-In opening Fri, Jul 1, 1949 – 8 · The Crowley Post-Signal (Crowley, Louisiana, United States of America) · Newspapers.com
The address is 1536 Crowley Rayne Hwy, Crowley, LA 70526. The drive-in appears to be intact in a 1971 aerial photo, but at some point afterwards was demolished.
Today, there is no trace of the drive-in left. https://goo.gl/maps/J4fZY
An article about Crowley’s theaters in the June 16, 2013, issue of The Crowley Post-Signal (PDF here) says that the Trail Drive-In opened on Sunday, July 3, 1949, with the James Cagney movie Blood on the Sun. The house advertised two shows nightly, at dusk and at 10:00 PM.
The Trail Drive-In remained open until late September, 1968. Though it advertised at that time that it was closing temporarily for repairs, it appears to have never reopened.