Corral Drive-In
2519 W. Pierce Street,
Carlsbad,
NM
88220
2519 W. Pierce Street,
Carlsbad,
NM
88220
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Unlike that odd Lazy H thing, the full-sized Corral was on the north highway, about where a Lowe’s is today. A good address would be 2519 W Pierce St, Carlsbad, NM 88220.
Something called the “Lazy H Corral Drive-In Pitcher Show / Just this side of White’s City” ran ads in the Carlsbad Current-Angus on August 1-16, 1946. I can’t find anything else about it, so I assume it was a makeshift event.
Theater Enterprise started construction on the real Corral in January 1952 and held its grand opening on April 13, 1952. The first movie was “Peggy.”
The Corral’s final ad in the Current-Angus said that it would close for the season on Labor Day, Sept. 2, 1957. The final show was “The Searchers.” It apparently never reopened, and a 1960 article about a nearby small grass fire referred to it as “the old Corral Drive-In Theatre”.