![]() In a bend of Sycamore Creek just east of Riverside Drive and north of Lancaster Avenue near a natural gas well, from the air you can still make out the concentric curved parking ramps of the Fort Worth Twin.Īnd, finally, on Riverside Drive just north of the Fort Worth Twin was the Meadowbrook drive-in theater. Part of the concrete foundation of the concession stand/projection room can be seen from the air. A church now occupies the site of the Mansfield drive-in theater. The Mansfield Road drive-in theater opened in 1950 as “an entertainment wonderland.”Ģ020 update: The concrete foundation of the ticket kiosks is gone. The concrete foundation of the ticket kiosks are all that remain of the Mansfield Road drive-in theater on Seminary Drive. ![]() (Photo from University of Texas at Arlington Library Special Collections.) The Pike opened in 1947, named for the Fort Worth-Dallas Pike, which was replaced by today’s U.S. On East Lancaster Avenue the concentric, undulating parking ramps of the Pike can still be seen on the ground and from the air. And the sounds of Rock and Doris wooing and the Duke “Pilgrim”ing have yielded to the sounds of boom cars thumping and smartphones ringing.īut a few relics of Fort Worth’s drive-in theaters can still be found.įor example, the concessions and projection building of the South Side Twin on Old Hemphill Road are now part of Treasure Island flea market. The smells of popcorn and hotdogs have long since been replaced by the smell of automobile exhaust. The clattering, whirring projectors have been scrapped. The steel orchards of speaker posts have been clear-cut.
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