Daily Illinois State Journal, April 30, 1949: “Taylorville, April 29 - Dominic Frisina, of the Frisina Amusement Co., Friday announced plans to erect a modern Drive-In theater in the vicinity of Sharpsburg. The new theater will be designed to accommodate 500 cars and will cost approximately $100,000, Frisina said. Tentative plans also call for a supervised play area for the children plus "baby sitting” service, free to patrons of the theater."
Here’s something closer to the opening date, plus an indication that this drive-in always had the same name.
The Exhibitor, Sept. 6, 1950: “In Lincoln, Ill., Steve Bennis held the grand opening of the Bennis Auto Vue drive-in. The 500-car drive-in has been equipped by the St. Louis Theatre Supply Company with deluxe RCA sound and projection equipment, and RCA in-car speakers.”
Boxoffice, May 29, 1978: “ESTHERVILLE, IOWA - A windstorm which produced gusts estimated at 70 miles per hour recently toppled the screen tower at the Chief Drive-In. There has been no estimate of the dollar-value of damage at the theatre, which had planned to present the motion picture "Linda Loveland for President” the night the storm occurred."
The Grizzly (Big Bear Lake), Nov. 1, 1956: “Lake Drive-In Theater at Metcalf Meadows, construction of which was begun this week under direction of owner J. M. (Jim) Boyd of Los Angeles, will encompass 13.89 acres to include parking facilities for 600 cars and a hold-out area for addition 200 vehicles. Completion of the project is slated for early May 1957. The 30'x60' flat screen will be located in the north corner of the area, near the highway. In addition to snack bar, kitchen and sanitary facilites, the two story structure to be located in the center of the area will house a projection room, office and generator storage. An auditorium to seat 140 will be used for large groups, such as youngsters from summer camps arriving in bus loads, or for audiences in inclement weather. The building will be primarily of redwood siding by George M. Lindsey and Robert Lindsey, AIA, of Los Angeles … Mr. Boyd … was manager of the Embassy Theater in San Francisco when in 1928 the first talking picture was presented.”
The Grizzly (Big Bear Lake), Nov. 8, 1956: “Work is progressing rapidly before heavy snow falls for spring completion of Peter Pan Woodland Drive-In Theater in Bear City. Installation of plumbing, underground wires for speakers and grading on ramps is being done this week. The 50'x80' screen, located in the southeast corner, west of Greeway Drive is in front of Peter Pan Club. There will be parking facilities for 664 cars on opening fat with additional facilities for 150 more vehicles planned for a later date. It is an Earl C. Strebe Theater. He is also owner and operator of Big Bear Theater, as well as theaters in Palm Springs and Lake Arrowhead. Bill Meyer of Big Bear Theater will also manage the drive-in which will be complete with snackbar concessions.”
This map, marked with a 1950 copyright, includes the “Peter Pan Woodland Drive-In Theater” next to Baldwin Lake. Maybe that copyright has a typo, or the drive-in was added to the 1950 map?
Boxoffice reported that this Roadium opened on May 19, 1950.
Boxoffice, May 27, 1950: “GARDENA, CALIF. – Added to the swelling list of ozoners in the southland territory was the Roadium No. 2, 480-car drive-in which opened here (19). Dale Gasteigen is the owner and managing operator of the new showcase and is a partner with Joe Bianca in the operation of the Roadium No. 1, located in the nearby township of Paramount.”
Boxoffice, March 18, 1950: “TAFT, CALIF. – A new drive-in is being constructed on a ten-acre site on Sixth street here northeast of the Lincoln school for Scott Theatres, Inc., owners and operators of the Terrace Drive-In in Bakersfield and of a chain of drive-ins in Texas.”
Boxoffice, March 25, 1950: “TAFT, CALIF. – The new $90,000 drive-in being built on a ten-acre plot between Taft and Ford City, will be opened about the first of May, says Oliver E. Scott, vice-president of Scott Theatres, Inc. “We haven’t decided on a name for the new theatre,” Scott says. “We have been thinking of initiating a name contest, awarding a prize for the winning suggestion.” Scott Theatres operates a circuit of theatres in Texas, and Scott and his mother Maggie operate the big Terrace Drive-In in Bakersfield. Mrs. Scott is president of the organization.”
Boxoffice, May 20, 1950: “TAFT, CALIF. – The new Sunset Drive-In nearing completion between Taft and Ford City will be opened May 15, by Oliver E. Scott of Scott Theatres, operator of the Terrace Drive-In in Bakersfield and of a chain in Texas. The Sunset will have space for 560 cars and will cost $100,000.”
Boxoffice, July 15, 1950: (open 1950 list) “Sunset, 628, Scott Theatres”
Theatre Catalog, 1952: “Sunset D. I. Exec: James Parks and Sam Stiefel. (628)”
Looks like it opened on May 18, 1950, if the Boxoffice note is accurate.
Boxoffice, Feb. 11, 1950: “SANTA PAULA, CALIF. – Negotiations have been completed here for the purchase of an eight-acre site on the old Walnut Park subdivision for erection of a drive-in by the Hickey Bros Co. of Ojai. The drive-in will accommodate 500 cars and will feature RCA in-car speakers.”
Boxoffice, May 27, 1950: “SANTA PAULA, CALIF. – With the Hickey Bros. Land Co. as owners and managing directors, a 450-car drive-in, the Santa Paula, opened here (18).”
Boxoffice, Feb. 18, 1950: “PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – The El Rancho Drive-In has been reopened by lessee Reg C. Jones after completion of a five-week remodeling program. Jones, a Palm Springs contractor, has rehabilitated the airer, erecting a new snack bar building, paving the ramps, painting the screen and numerous other improvements. The drive-in, located on Highway 111 on the corner of Highway 80, will be managed by Frank Millan, with Reba Perry assisting him.”
All that work for nothing? The June 10, 1950 issue of BoxOffice had a note of California closings including “Redge Joneses' El Rancho Drive-In, a 500-car operation in El Centro. Poor business was given as reason for the shutterings.”
Thanks to various angles, Google Street View images show that all four screens were still there in May 2015, the screens were gone but a swap meet was active in August 2017, but the entire site had been razed by February 2020.
Google Maps says that the Edwards site is adjacent to Irwindale but technically in a census-designated place called Mayflower Village, which is east of Arcadia. No, I take that back - the Edwards would have been adjacent to Irwindale except for a 100-foot-wide thread (along the old alignment of Peck Road) of Monrovia to a chunk of land south of Live Oak Ave.
The Theatre Catalog listed the Edwards under Arcadia. (The Motion Picture Almanac put it under Los Angeles, which might have been its shorthand for LA County.) Although the site is closer to Irwindale, I’d say that Arcadia is probably the best place to list it.
Hey kencmcintyre, thanks for the Torrance Library link!
But the Harbor site was apparently never in Torrance, though that is the Zip Code for the post office that would deliver its mail today. First there’s a half-mile wide tendril of Los Angeles sits between the old drive-in and Torrance. According to Google Maps, the Harbor is east of that part of LA and west of Carson, so it sits in a small census-designated place (CDP), appropriately called West Carson.
The Theatre Catalog and Motion Picture Almanac both listed the Harbor under Los Angeles. Topo maps from 1953 & 1959 put the Harbor in unincorporated space, again across the LA tendril from Torrance. The 1966 & 1975 topos show Carson extending north of the drive-in site, which is still untouched. The 1982 maps shows the area in a small blob of territory - part of Ironsides? Is that a neighborhood or another CDP or something?
If I had to choose, I’d list the Harbor under Los Angeles. In the drive-in’s heyday, it was closer to Torrance than Carson, but it was closer still to the Los Angeles tendril.
Same drive-in? Boxoffice, July 6, 1959: “Art Drielsma, architect, was in Lompoc supervising the early opening of the Lompoc Drive-In for Metropolitan Theatres.”
Yes, that was the Valley. “The Valley Drive-In Theatre was completed and opened in August 1959. The new drive-in theatre was built to accommodate 850 cars, with a 50 x 100 ft. CinemaScope Screen, an up-to-date lounge and snack bar and a playground for the children at a cost of $350,000. Wm. J. McDougall managed both the Drive-in theatre and the Lompoc theatre.” That’s from the Summer 1985 issue of the Lompoc Legacy (pdf), published by the Lompoc Valley Historical Society.
Here’s what I know so far about Indio’s drive-in(s).
Boxoffice wrote on Jan. 14, 1950 that a construction permit “for erection of a drive-in on Route 111 four miles west of here has been issued by the county planning commission to R. C. and Anita H. Jones, and construction has been started.” Two months later, Boxoffice reported that Frank Millan had been “appointed manager of the new Indio Drive-In, operated by Reg Jones and associates”. I’ve been unable to find any trace of a drive-in on Route 111 west of Indio.
As noted above, Boxoffice said that the Coachella Drive-In opened (for the season?) in April 1952. The LA Times reported on Dec. 30, 1952 that Desert Valley Theaters and F. & E. Theaters had bought the “Coachella Valley Drive-in Theater” in Indio. The 1955-56 Theatre Catalog included the “Coachello (sic) Valley”, owner by F and E Th. Co.
On Oct. 13, 1956, Boxoffice wrote, “Charles Maestri, film buyer, and Dan Pavich, booker, both of Lippert Theatres in San Francisco … conferred with E. Van Grotel, manager of the Indio Drive-In”. But the Motion Picture Almanac continued to label Indio’s drive-in as the Coachella into the late 1960s.
In March 1976, manager E. Van Gortel announced that the Indio would be twinned, with viewing fields holding 450 and 375 cars.
In June 1981, the Indio drive-in included in movie round-up ads was the “Kay Donna Drive-In”. In November 1982, the Carlsbad-based College Theatre Corp. announced that it had closed the Kay-Donna, effective Nov. 3. The drive-in was part of a bankruptcy sale the next year.
As noted above, Sterling Recreation Organization purchased and renamed the drive-in; the Indio Twin’s grand opening ad came in the March 24, 1984 issue of the Desert Sun. And two more glimpses from that newspaper:
Desert Sun, Sept. 22, 1987: “A proposed change in ownership in the Indio Drive-In Theater will come before the Planning Commission … Columbia Theater Co. of Bellevue, Wash., wants to transfer ownership to Sang Suk You, Kun Nyo You and Kyung Choon Lee of Los Angeles.”
Desert Sun, Feb. 19, 1990: “Fire Sunday (18) caused nearly $220,000 damage to an abandoned building at the Indio Drive-In Theater at 83-791 Date Ave., officials said. The two-story building was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived in response to a 11:55 a.m. call … The cause of the fire has been labeled suspicious … Homeless people frequently used the building as shelter … The theater is not in use.” Maybe this was the source of Calderon_123’s paranormal tinglings?
There were very few references to the Coachella / Coachella Valley Drive-In, mostly from annual lists. Did Reg Jones give up on the western site and open the Indio where it existed into the 1980s? Was it renamed the Coachella, or was the original Indio stillborn? If anyone ever gets access to old Indio newspapers, I’d bet they’d find the answers to those questions.
Boxoffice, June 18, 1965: “INDIO, CALIF. - Robert L. Lippert, E. Van Gortel and the Indio Co., owners of the Aladdin and Desert theatres and the Indio Drive-In here, have purchased three additional theatres in Blythe … Van Gortel, spokesman for the local company, said two indoor houses and a drive-in were acquired from Bob Dunnigan, owner of the Blythe properties since 1933.”
Boxoffice, June 18, 1965: “INDIO, CALIF. - Robert L. Lippert, E. Van Gortel and the Indio Co., owners of the Aladdin and Desert theatres and the Indio Drive-In here, have purchased … two (theaters) in Parker, Ariz. … The Parker properties, purchased from C. Corneal, consist of a theatre and a drive-in.”
Boxoffice, June 28, 1965: “ALBUQUERQUE - Strong winds in central New Mexico damaged the screen of the Route 25 Drive-In here. Owner Carl Halberg reported the screen was pushed backward and ripped badly. Patrons were given refunds. No other outdoor theatre in Albuquerque reported damage.”
Springfield’s Daily Illinois State Journal ran a “Now Open” ad for the Route 4 (“North Edge of Thayer”) on June 28, 1950.
Daily Illinois State Journal, April 30, 1949: “Taylorville, April 29 - Dominic Frisina, of the Frisina Amusement Co., Friday announced plans to erect a modern Drive-In theater in the vicinity of Sharpsburg. The new theater will be designed to accommodate 500 cars and will cost approximately $100,000, Frisina said. Tentative plans also call for a supervised play area for the children plus "baby sitting” service, free to patrons of the theater."
Here’s something closer to the opening date, plus an indication that this drive-in always had the same name.
The Exhibitor, Sept. 6, 1950: “In Lincoln, Ill., Steve Bennis held the grand opening of the Bennis Auto Vue drive-in. The 500-car drive-in has been equipped by the St. Louis Theatre Supply Company with deluxe RCA sound and projection equipment, and RCA in-car speakers.”
Boxoffice, May 29, 1978: “ESTHERVILLE, IOWA - A windstorm which produced gusts estimated at 70 miles per hour recently toppled the screen tower at the Chief Drive-In. There has been no estimate of the dollar-value of damage at the theatre, which had planned to present the motion picture "Linda Loveland for President” the night the storm occurred."
This appeared on the cover of the Sept. 7, 1964 issue of Boxoffice.
The Grizzly (Big Bear Lake), Nov. 1, 1956: “Lake Drive-In Theater at Metcalf Meadows, construction of which was begun this week under direction of owner J. M. (Jim) Boyd of Los Angeles, will encompass 13.89 acres to include parking facilities for 600 cars and a hold-out area for addition 200 vehicles. Completion of the project is slated for early May 1957. The 30'x60' flat screen will be located in the north corner of the area, near the highway. In addition to snack bar, kitchen and sanitary facilites, the two story structure to be located in the center of the area will house a projection room, office and generator storage. An auditorium to seat 140 will be used for large groups, such as youngsters from summer camps arriving in bus loads, or for audiences in inclement weather. The building will be primarily of redwood siding by George M. Lindsey and Robert Lindsey, AIA, of Los Angeles … Mr. Boyd … was manager of the Embassy Theater in San Francisco when in 1928 the first talking picture was presented.”
Sorry, I forgot to mention that the ad ran on May 23, 1957.
The Grizzly (Big Bear Lake), Nov. 8, 1956: “Work is progressing rapidly before heavy snow falls for spring completion of Peter Pan Woodland Drive-In Theater in Bear City. Installation of plumbing, underground wires for speakers and grading on ramps is being done this week. The 50'x80' screen, located in the southeast corner, west of Greeway Drive is in front of Peter Pan Club. There will be parking facilities for 664 cars on opening fat with additional facilities for 150 more vehicles planned for a later date. It is an Earl C. Strebe Theater. He is also owner and operator of Big Bear Theater, as well as theaters in Palm Springs and Lake Arrowhead. Bill Meyer of Big Bear Theater will also manage the drive-in which will be complete with snackbar concessions.”
This map, marked with a 1950 copyright, includes the “Peter Pan Woodland Drive-In Theater” next to Baldwin Lake. Maybe that copyright has a typo, or the drive-in was added to the 1950 map?
Based on Google Street View archives, the Lake’s screen finally came down between August 2015 and August 2016.
Boxoffice reported that this Roadium opened on May 19, 1950.
Boxoffice, May 27, 1950: “GARDENA, CALIF. – Added to the swelling list of ozoners in the southland territory was the Roadium No. 2, 480-car drive-in which opened here (19). Dale Gasteigen is the owner and managing operator of the new showcase and is a partner with Joe Bianca in the operation of the Roadium No. 1, located in the nearby township of Paramount.”
Boxoffice, July 15, 1950: (opened 1950 list) “Roadium, 480, Dale Gastigen”
Boxoffice, March 18, 1950: “TAFT, CALIF. – A new drive-in is being constructed on a ten-acre site on Sixth street here northeast of the Lincoln school for Scott Theatres, Inc., owners and operators of the Terrace Drive-In in Bakersfield and of a chain of drive-ins in Texas.”
Boxoffice, March 25, 1950: “TAFT, CALIF. – The new $90,000 drive-in being built on a ten-acre plot between Taft and Ford City, will be opened about the first of May, says Oliver E. Scott, vice-president of Scott Theatres, Inc. “We haven’t decided on a name for the new theatre,” Scott says. “We have been thinking of initiating a name contest, awarding a prize for the winning suggestion.” Scott Theatres operates a circuit of theatres in Texas, and Scott and his mother Maggie operate the big Terrace Drive-In in Bakersfield. Mrs. Scott is president of the organization.”
Boxoffice, May 20, 1950: “TAFT, CALIF. – The new Sunset Drive-In nearing completion between Taft and Ford City will be opened May 15, by Oliver E. Scott of Scott Theatres, operator of the Terrace Drive-In in Bakersfield and of a chain in Texas. The Sunset will have space for 560 cars and will cost $100,000.”
Boxoffice, July 15, 1950: (open 1950 list) “Sunset, 628, Scott Theatres”
Theatre Catalog, 1952: “Sunset D. I. Exec: James Parks and Sam Stiefel. (628)”
Looks like it opened on May 18, 1950, if the Boxoffice note is accurate.
Boxoffice, Feb. 11, 1950: “SANTA PAULA, CALIF. – Negotiations have been completed here for the purchase of an eight-acre site on the old Walnut Park subdivision for erection of a drive-in by the Hickey Bros Co. of Ojai. The drive-in will accommodate 500 cars and will feature RCA in-car speakers.”
Boxoffice, May 27, 1950: “SANTA PAULA, CALIF. – With the Hickey Bros. Land Co. as owners and managing directors, a 450-car drive-in, the Santa Paula, opened here (18).”
Boxoffice, July 15, 1950: (open 1950 list) “Santa Paula, 450, Hickey Bros.”
Boxoffice, Feb. 18, 1950: “PALM SPRINGS, CALIF. – The El Rancho Drive-In has been reopened by lessee Reg C. Jones after completion of a five-week remodeling program. Jones, a Palm Springs contractor, has rehabilitated the airer, erecting a new snack bar building, paving the ramps, painting the screen and numerous other improvements. The drive-in, located on Highway 111 on the corner of Highway 80, will be managed by Frank Millan, with Reba Perry assisting him.”
All that work for nothing? The June 10, 1950 issue of BoxOffice had a note of California closings including “Redge Joneses' El Rancho Drive-In, a 500-car operation in El Centro. Poor business was given as reason for the shutterings.”
Aerial photos show the 1823 Mission Avenue drive-in by 1953, then redeveloped between 1978 and 1980.
And this ad from 1948 shows that back then, it was advertising as the Mission Drive-In.
Looks like this drive-in was first proposed as the Midway. Note that the artist’s drawing is an exact match for the eventual Big Sky aerial photo.
Thanks to various angles, Google Street View images show that all four screens were still there in May 2015, the screens were gone but a swap meet was active in August 2017, but the entire site had been razed by February 2020.
Theatre Catalog, 1952 & 1955-56: “Midway D. I., Fall Brook Rd. Exec: Midway Entr. Inc., 4025 Lankershim Blvd., N. Hollywood. (508)”
Google Maps says that the Edwards site is adjacent to Irwindale but technically in a census-designated place called Mayflower Village, which is east of Arcadia. No, I take that back - the Edwards would have been adjacent to Irwindale except for a 100-foot-wide thread (along the old alignment of Peck Road) of Monrovia to a chunk of land south of Live Oak Ave.
The Theatre Catalog listed the Edwards under Arcadia. (The Motion Picture Almanac put it under Los Angeles, which might have been its shorthand for LA County.) Although the site is closer to Irwindale, I’d say that Arcadia is probably the best place to list it.
Hey kencmcintyre, thanks for the Torrance Library link!
But the Harbor site was apparently never in Torrance, though that is the Zip Code for the post office that would deliver its mail today. First there’s a half-mile wide tendril of Los Angeles sits between the old drive-in and Torrance. According to Google Maps, the Harbor is east of that part of LA and west of Carson, so it sits in a small census-designated place (CDP), appropriately called West Carson.
The Theatre Catalog and Motion Picture Almanac both listed the Harbor under Los Angeles. Topo maps from 1953 & 1959 put the Harbor in unincorporated space, again across the LA tendril from Torrance. The 1966 & 1975 topos show Carson extending north of the drive-in site, which is still untouched. The 1982 maps shows the area in a small blob of territory - part of Ironsides? Is that a neighborhood or another CDP or something?
If I had to choose, I’d list the Harbor under Los Angeles. In the drive-in’s heyday, it was closer to Torrance than Carson, but it was closer still to the Los Angeles tendril.
Same drive-in? Boxoffice, July 6, 1959: “Art Drielsma, architect, was in Lompoc supervising the early opening of the Lompoc Drive-In for Metropolitan Theatres.”
Yes, that was the Valley. “The Valley Drive-In Theatre was completed and opened in August 1959. The new drive-in theatre was built to accommodate 850 cars, with a 50 x 100 ft. CinemaScope Screen, an up-to-date lounge and snack bar and a playground for the children at a cost of $350,000. Wm. J. McDougall managed both the Drive-in theatre and the Lompoc theatre.” That’s from the Summer 1985 issue of the Lompoc Legacy (pdf), published by the Lompoc Valley Historical Society.
Here’s what I know so far about Indio’s drive-in(s).
Boxoffice wrote on Jan. 14, 1950 that a construction permit “for erection of a drive-in on Route 111 four miles west of here has been issued by the county planning commission to R. C. and Anita H. Jones, and construction has been started.” Two months later, Boxoffice reported that Frank Millan had been “appointed manager of the new Indio Drive-In, operated by Reg Jones and associates”. I’ve been unable to find any trace of a drive-in on Route 111 west of Indio.
As noted above, Boxoffice said that the Coachella Drive-In opened (for the season?) in April 1952. The LA Times reported on Dec. 30, 1952 that Desert Valley Theaters and F. & E. Theaters had bought the “Coachella Valley Drive-in Theater” in Indio. The 1955-56 Theatre Catalog included the “Coachello (sic) Valley”, owner by F and E Th. Co.
On Oct. 13, 1956, Boxoffice wrote, “Charles Maestri, film buyer, and Dan Pavich, booker, both of Lippert Theatres in San Francisco … conferred with E. Van Grotel, manager of the Indio Drive-In”. But the Motion Picture Almanac continued to label Indio’s drive-in as the Coachella into the late 1960s.
In March 1976, manager E. Van Gortel announced that the Indio would be twinned, with viewing fields holding 450 and 375 cars.
In June 1981, the Indio drive-in included in movie round-up ads was the “Kay Donna Drive-In”. In November 1982, the Carlsbad-based College Theatre Corp. announced that it had closed the Kay-Donna, effective Nov. 3. The drive-in was part of a bankruptcy sale the next year.
As noted above, Sterling Recreation Organization purchased and renamed the drive-in; the Indio Twin’s grand opening ad came in the March 24, 1984 issue of the Desert Sun. And two more glimpses from that newspaper:
Desert Sun, Sept. 22, 1987: “A proposed change in ownership in the Indio Drive-In Theater will come before the Planning Commission … Columbia Theater Co. of Bellevue, Wash., wants to transfer ownership to Sang Suk You, Kun Nyo You and Kyung Choon Lee of Los Angeles.”
Desert Sun, Feb. 19, 1990: “Fire Sunday (18) caused nearly $220,000 damage to an abandoned building at the Indio Drive-In Theater at 83-791 Date Ave., officials said. The two-story building was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived in response to a 11:55 a.m. call … The cause of the fire has been labeled suspicious … Homeless people frequently used the building as shelter … The theater is not in use.” Maybe this was the source of Calderon_123’s paranormal tinglings?
There were very few references to the Coachella / Coachella Valley Drive-In, mostly from annual lists. Did Reg Jones give up on the western site and open the Indio where it existed into the 1980s? Was it renamed the Coachella, or was the original Indio stillborn? If anyone ever gets access to old Indio newspapers, I’d bet they’d find the answers to those questions.
Boxoffice, June 18, 1965: “INDIO, CALIF. - Robert L. Lippert, E. Van Gortel and the Indio Co., owners of the Aladdin and Desert theatres and the Indio Drive-In here, have purchased three additional theatres in Blythe … Van Gortel, spokesman for the local company, said two indoor houses and a drive-in were acquired from Bob Dunnigan, owner of the Blythe properties since 1933.”
Boxoffice, June 18, 1965: “INDIO, CALIF. - Robert L. Lippert, E. Van Gortel and the Indio Co., owners of the Aladdin and Desert theatres and the Indio Drive-In here, have purchased … two (theaters) in Parker, Ariz. … The Parker properties, purchased from C. Corneal, consist of a theatre and a drive-in.”
Boxoffice, June 28, 1965: “ALBUQUERQUE - Strong winds in central New Mexico damaged the screen of the Route 25 Drive-In here. Owner Carl Halberg reported the screen was pushed backward and ripped badly. Patrons were given refunds. No other outdoor theatre in Albuquerque reported damage.”