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Title: Harbor Boulevard Drive-In, Santa Ana, looking northwest
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1964
Publication Information: Kelly-Holiday
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: Title supplied by cataloger.
The Harbor Blvd. Drive-In Theater opened on June 29, 1960 as Pacific Theater's 41st location and Orange County's sixth drive-in. Among its amenities were a 90 x 120 ft. screen and a 1500 car capacity, but despite its mammoth size, no more screens were ever added. Spanish-language films were shown in later years, but after July 1984 no films showed up in theater listings, only the swap meet which was to carry on until December 1986. Demolition began in February 1987 and a Wal-Mart store was built on the site.
Aerial view of Harbor Boulevard Drive-In Theater, located at 3700 McFadden Ave. in Santa Ana; view is looking northwest. Santa Ana River flows at bottom right corner; Harbor Blvd. is diagonally, upper left to upper right; McFadden Ave. is diagonally, middle right to upper left; Roberts Dr. is diagonally, middle left to lower center; Laurel St., Jackson St., Gunther St., and Bewley St. are slightly diagonally at forefront, below the drive-in. Photograph dated May 1964.
Type: Image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;10 x 13 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00103839
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 609-11
CARL0005186327
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5905
Subject: Harbor Boulevard Drive-In (Santa Ana, Calif.)
Drive-in theaters--California--Santa Ana
Dwellings--California--Santa Ana
Streets--California--Santa Ana
Rivers--California, Southern
Electric lines--Poles and towers
Lost architecture--California--Santa Ana
Santa Ana (Calif.)--Aerial views
Santa Ana River (Calif.)
Santa Ana (Calif.)
Aerial photographs

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