Meadowbrook
Drive-In Fort Worth Texas
This drive-in is
right across the highway from the Fort Worth Twin Drive-in east of downtown Fort
Worth Texas. The screen and the somewhat intact ticket booth/marquee was still
there in 2003. I remember going by this theater when it was an overgrown field
in the late 1980s. The marquee/ticket booth was still in decent shape at the time.
In the early 1990s the Meadowbrook was a bicycle BMX track and later was turned
into a storage site for trash dumpsters.
This
shot was taken looking down along where the entry drive used to be towards the
ticket booth. It's pretty much just a big dirt lot now with dumpsters scattered
around.
The ticket booth/marquee
with "Cowtown BMX" painted over the original sign. All the neon tubing
is long gone. When I was at the site in the late 1980s all but 3 of the original
neon tubes were broken on the sign. I can't say exactly what happened to
those 3 neon tubes. I think they might have a nice home in a certain garage somewhere
alongside a few other neon remnants from other long demolished drive-in theaters.
This is what is left
of one ticket booth. There used to be glass block around the front bottom of the
ticket booths. It's all gone now. I think there was originally neon tubing behind
the glass block too.
The
original Meadowbrook name can still just be seen through the white paint. This
photo was taken in Feb. 2008. At that time the screen was still up and the ticket
booth was still in the same condition as seen in the above photos.
This
shot was taken looking down along where the entry drive used to be towards the
ticket booth. It's pretty much just a big dirt lot now with dumpsters scattered
around.
The ticket booth/marquee
with "Cowtown BMX" painted over the original sign. All the neon tubing
is long gone. When I was at the site in the late 1980s all but 3 of the original
neon tubes were broken on the sign. I can't say exactly what happened to
those 3 neon tubes. I think they might have a nice home in a certain garage somewhere
alongside a few other neon remnants from other long demolished drive-in theaters.
This is what is left
of one ticket booth. There used to be glass block around the front bottom of the
ticket booths. It's all gone now. I think there was originally neon tubing behind
the glass block too. 
The
original Meadowbrook name can still just be seen through the white paint. This
photo was taken in Feb. 2008. At that time the screen was still up and the ticket
booth was still in the same condition as seen in the above photos.