Treasure City Flea Market has been a cornerstone of La Salle Avenue since 1985, but its story begins four decades earlier as the Circle Drive-In Theatre, where Robin Hood’s son once swashbuckled across a brand-new screen in Technicolor.
It’s a story of car-window speakers and X-rated double bills, pink Stratocaster knock-offs and Day of the Dead pinups—and a weekend mercado that still carries the pulse of “old” Waco, stubborn and alive beneath the shadow of its giant screen.
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