Edwards Drive-In

Arcadia, CA

4469 E. Live Oak Ave.

, Arcadia, CA 91006 United States

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Status:	Closed/Demolished
Screens:	Single Screen
Style:	Unknown

Function:	Unknown
Seats:	Unknown
Chain:	Unknown

Architect:	S. Charles Lee
Firm:	Unknown

S. Charles Lee designed a number of drive-ins during his career and some theatres for James Edwards II. Edwards Theatres opened this drive-in, designed by Lee, in 1948. Other Lee-designed theatres for Edwards were the Tumbleweed in El Monte, the original Temple in Temple City, and the Tujunga in Tujunga.

This 750-car site was taken over by Pacific Theatres in 1954 and until its closing and demolition in the late 1980s it was always called Edwards Drive-In.

Contributed by Ron Pierce

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Actually the theatre lot sat vacant and the remianing buildings were demolished about 1999. Today, a new home development sits on the lot.

posted by Jeff Arellano on Mar 16, 2004 at 8:09pm

From the UCLA collection:

http://sclee.library.ucla.edu/002/08/i0020804.jpg

http://sclee.library.ucla.edu/002/08/i0020807.jpg

http://sclee.library.ucla.edu/002/08/i0020805.jpg

http://sclee.library.ucla.edu/002/08/i0020803.jpg

posted by ken mc on Oct 19, 2005 at 4:50pm

From socaldriveins.com:

http://mysite.verizon.net/res8ibgr/socaldriveins/edwards.htm

posted by ken mc on Nov 9, 2005 at 12:33pm

Ken, Smile when I think of ALL the Friday and Sat.Night on Dates spent at this Drive-In. Thanks for the Great Pics.
Great Memories! wink!!!!!

posted by Von T. on Jan 22, 2007 at 3:54pm

If it's rockin, don't come knockin...

posted by ken mc on Jan 22, 2007 at 4:03pm

Bet you were there too! 50's and 60's? :)
Haven't been to a Theater or Drive-In for so many Years, Too
Scarry Now. The closet Drive-In to Us is in Barstow,CA.
My Dad and Uncle,his Twin ushered at the Tumbleweed Theater in El Monte. Lots of fun storys.
I was from the El Monte area! You?

posted by Von T. on Jan 22, 2007 at 4:21pm

Atlantic City, NJ. There is a page on this site for the Tumbleweed, with some photos.

posted by ken mc on Jan 23, 2007 at 9:04am

Some scenes in the movie "There Goes My Baby" (set in 1965) were filmed in front of the Edwards; they built a mock-up of a restaurant in the front parking lot and lit the marquee but changed its name to "Paradise", and listed "Cat Ballou" on the signboard.

posted by ChrisB on Oct 3, 2007 at 2:07am

Was mentioned in the documentary "Drive-In Movie Memories" in 2001.

posted by shoeshoe14 on Sep 6, 2008 at 12:43pm

Here are excerpts from an LA Times article dated 6/23/52:

Crime careers of two Arizona men came to a quick end early yesterday when the pair ran a boulevard stop at a dizzy speed. Shortly after they had been halted by deputy sheriffs at Temple City for the traffic violation, one of the pair admitted that he had robbed an Arcadia drive-in theater shortly before and had been involved in a highway accident and chase in which a shot was fired at a man and woman.

The man confessed to the theater robbery and chase, but told investigators that he had been drunk and was asleep in the car when the robbery and chase took place. The theater held up was the Edwards Drive-in, Peck Road and Live Oak Avenue, Arcadia. Miss Wananda M. Smith, cashier, reported that she was entering the receipts into a record book when a bandit entered her enclosure armed with a pistol. He took the currency worth about $135, and hit her on the back before leaving. He also pulled out the telephones.

posted by ken mc on Nov 16, 2008 at 11:31am

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