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Description
This photograph, taken on Oct. 31, 1946, shows the entrance to the El Rancho Drive-In Theater on the Davis Highway, now 2000 West Capitol Ave. in West Sacramento. The 13-acre, 600-car El Rancho was the first drive-in theater in the Sacramento area, built in the same year this photograph was taken. Built for $130,000, the El Rancho opened an hour before darkness on May 29, 1946, showing two main features, a color cartoon and a newsreel. The facility was closed in the fall of 1963 and replaced by a 150-unit mobile home park. The conversion was done at a cost of $300,000.
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