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Title: Highway 39 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: Highway 39 Drive-In. 7901 Trask Avenue, Westminster, CA 92683. Opened June 29, 1955, closed March 31, 1997. 1,600 car capacity. Almost all of the Pacific Drive-In Theaters in Southern California had cool murals on their theater screens. The Hi-way 39 was a classic, screen mural, neon road sign, manicured lawns and palm trees all around. It was the last drive-in operating in Orange county. Like all of these monster drive-ins in urban areas, the land value simply becomes too great to justify the operation continuing. http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/4813
Type: image
Format: image/jp2
Identifier: elp01927.jpg
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15831coll13/id/2068
Language: English
Subject: Drive-in theaters
Mural paintings (visual works)
Place: California
Westminster (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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