The Garland Road Drive-In was in a very popular location, and opened on April 7, 1950 with Mark Stevens & June Haver in “Oh, You Beautiful Doll”. With a capacity for 600 cars, it had customers coming from Dallas and Garland to watch sometimes prime movies. It was operated by C.D. Leon Theatres. It was closed in 1966.
It was taken over by Tri-States Theatres/McLendon Theatres and reopened on October 3, 1968 as the Apollo Twin Drive-In with a capacity for 1,800 cars and 175 seats for walk-in patrons. The Apollo Twin Drive-In closed at the end of 1986, and has been gone for many years. That whole triangular area was the new Hyper Mart built by Sam Walton. Later it was renamed Walmart.
Contributed by Jimmy Joe
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Garland, Texas (December 28, 1987)
This location was converted several years later to a Walmart Supercenter and lost its Hypermart USA branding. By May 2008, Walmart announced it would replace this store with a smaller Supercenter nearby. In October 2017, it was announced that the city of Garland would buy the vacant site with intentions of redeveloping it as a "gateway" to the city. It was demolished in the summer of 2018.
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