Texas Drive-In

Texas 202,
Beeville, TX 78102

Closed
1 screen
375 cars

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MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on March 4, 2025 at 12:34 pm

HistoricAerials.com must have added its 1958 aerial photo of Beeville since my posts here five years ago. It now clearly shows the drive-in at 1608 S Washington St (AKA Texas 202), where a storage facility sits today.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on November 16, 2019 at 7:25 pm

Billboard, Oct. 11, 1954: “A. M. Gaines is owner and operator of the newly opened Texan Drive-In Theater, Beeville, Tex.”

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on November 13, 2019 at 7:26 pm

Billboard, July 17, 1954: “A. M. Gaines. owner of Bronco Drive-In, Beeville, Tex., has announced he will build a second drive-in on the Refugio Highway near that city. Gaines will install wide screens in both theaters.”

The highway to Refugio is Texas 202, but even in a 1974 USGS aerial, I can’t find a trace of a drive-in. My guesses would be either the housing development that starts at 2101 Lexington Rd, or where the new US 181 now crosses 202. Neither was there in a 1956 topo map but both were there in the 1974 aerial.