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Title: Valley drive-in theater
Creator: Leonelli, Elisa
Date Created and/or Issued: 1978
Publication Information: Claremont Colleges Library. Special Collections
Contributing Institution: Claremont Colleges Library
Collection: Elisa Leonelli, Photojournalist
Rights Information: Unauthorized reproduction prohibited. For permission, email leonelli@earthlink.net
Photo © Elisa Leonelli, 1978
Description: Valley Drive-in. 10477 Central Avenue, Montclair, CA 91763. Opened 1948. The world’s largest neon mural made this the most spectacular drive in ever built in Southern California. With a beautiful blue sky, majestic mountain range and Santa Barbara Mission as a dramatic backdrop, a Native American, on the right, and a priest, on the left, witness an oxcart, with a driver and two passengers, cross a stream. The Native American has a jug at his side. The priest carries a bible in his hand. At night the early California scene was completely outlined with more than 2500 ft. of glowing neon. Demolished in 1980. https://www.charlesphoenix.com/valley-drive-in-theatre-montclair-california/
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: elp01922.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll13/id/2063
Language: English
Subject: Drive-in theaters
Mural paintings (visual works)
Place: California
Montclair (Calif.)
Source: Color photograph: Drive-in theaters, Elisa Leonelli photo archives
Relation: Drive-in theaters
Elisa Leonelli, Photojournalist - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/p15831coll13

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