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Title: At drive-in opening
Alternative Title: Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor: This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: The Sepulveda Drive-In Theatre, located at 6161 Sepulveda Boulevard in Van Nuys, opened in 1953 and closed in 1989; it has since been demolished.
Photograph caption dated May 25, 1955 reads, "Participating at opening ceremonies of new Sepulveda Super Drive-in Theatre on Sepulveda boulevard, south of Victory boulevard, are, from left, Helen M. Schrank, general manager of Valley Market Town; Don Cottrall, general manager of theater, and Jack Y. Berman, theater owner. Drive-in, along with Valley Market Town, covers 25 acres."
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00129822
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d035_f10_i15
CARL0005491938
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/61048
Subject: Sepulveda Drive-In Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Sepulveda Drive-In Theatre (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Employees
Valley Market Town (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Valley Market Town (Los Angeles, Calif.)--Employees
Dedications--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Drive-in theaters--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Shopping centers--California--Van Nuys (Los Angeles)
Flower arrangements
Women--California--Los Angeles
Men--California--Los Angeles
Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Valley Times Collection photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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