Glade Drive-In
2000 E. Broadway Avenue,
Gladewater,
TX
75647
2000 E. Broadway Avenue,
Gladewater,
TX
75647
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D.B. Harrell and D.B. Ferguson launched the Glade Drive-In on September 12, 1953 with Alan Ladd in “Red Mountain”. After just one season, the theatre was sold to Bill Hardy and O.L. Lowery of H&H Amusement Circuit who widened the screen for CinemaScope when it reopened in 1955. New operators made improvements launching in 1956.
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Based on the photo, a closer address is 2000 E Broadway Ave, Gladewater, TX. The actual entrance (and exit) of the drive-in appears to be on an unnamed road.
Today, the entire property is overgrown with trees. There is no trace of the drive-in visible.
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Billboard, Dec. 4, 1954: “Fred Frick has been named manager of the reopened Glade Drive-In Theater, opened under the new ownership of the H&H Amusement Company at Gladewater, Tex. Cinemascope and other modernizations were completed by the new owners, O. L. Lowery and B. J. Hardy.”