dead drive-in

 

As one approaches Olton, a tall structure looms on the horizon.  It's not a water tower or grain elevator--what can it be? Turns out it is a drive-in movie screen.  What does a landowner do with a defunct drive-in, especially when the screen is built with concrete blocks?  This landowner with the house next door appears to ignore it.  The former box office is now a carport, the parking area dotted with trees, the concession stand is slowly deteriorating and a fence surrounds the whole thing.  I don't know when the Mustang Drive-in closed; a "drive-in theater" website lists it under "dead drive-ins" along with Lubbock's Circle, Corral, Golden Horseshoe and Red Raider.  At one time, Olton was a swinging town with TWO theaters -- the Mustang Drive-in and the Roxy downtown on Main Street.  More small town history lost.

 

Mustang Drive-in Theater

Farm Road 168

Lamb County, Texas

2.15.2014