Mini Drive In

15324 US-90 BUS,
Houston, TX 77049

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Mini Drive In

Found an old drive in theater newspaper advertisement in the Houston Post from 1980 and it listed a “Mini Drive In Theater” It was showing X-rated movies. It was a circular autoscope drive-in, where each car had its own screen.

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Kenmore
Kenmore on February 22, 2019 at 12:42 pm

A more accurate address is 15324 US-90 BUS, Houston, Texas.

From a 1981 aerial, this was an autoscope drive-in. The Mini Drive-In didn’t seem to last very long as by 1995 it was demolished. The remains were still there until 2010.

Today, the property is entirely paved over with no trace of the drive-in remaining.

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MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on May 11, 2019 at 2:16 pm

In his 2007 book Cinema Houston: From Nickelodeon to Megaplex, David Welling wrote, “The Mini Drive-In, an X-rated theatre at 15010 East Highway 90, bore the distinction of being Houston’s only outdoor theatre-in-the-round.”

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on May 11, 2019 at 3:22 pm

Was this drive-in only for Mini cars?

kiteman
kiteman on June 14, 2020 at 1:03 pm

Used to pass it coming back from Crosby at nighttime ,could see the glow of the screens and cars pulled up to them passing view from hwy 90 ,only knew one person who went there .

driveinfan
driveinfan on August 9, 2021 at 12:35 pm

By 2010 all traces of the drive in have been removed with new development.

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