Top O Texas Drive-In
Pampa, Texas1950-1976
Browse Top O Texas Drive-In tees, long sleeve tees and hoodies. The Top O Texas opened in 1950 on North Hobart Street in Pampa, Texas, an oil town at the time, with Maureen O'Hara in Bagdad. It held about 400 cars on one screen. Browse the styles below, and the full Top O Texas history is further down. We are an American small business bringing back the signs and logos of places and teams that are long gone but remembered fondly.
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Top O Texas Drive-In History
The Top O Texas Drive-In in Pampa, Texas, opened on June 23, 1950, with Maureen O'Hara in Bagdad. Pampa was an oil town at the time. The theater stood on the north side of town at 2215 North Hobart Street and held about 400 cars on a single screen. A 1955 theater catalog lists it alongside the town's other drive-in, the Pampa Drive-In, under the same operator, Video Independent Theaters.
The drive-in closed in the 1970s. A Cinema Treasures commenter who cites the Pampa Daily News says it shut in mid-July 1976 and that bank employees bought the property on July 29 for $311,000. The same commenter says the theater was demolished in November 1977. Those dates come from a single account.
A Walmart is reported to have opened on the Hobart Street land in 1984 and to have moved out in October 2004. The old store building later became a church. Drive-ins.com lists a church and a KFC on the site today.