49'er Drive-In
4450 Marysville Boulevard,
Sacramento,
CA
95838
4450 Marysville Boulevard,
Sacramento,
CA
95838
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The 49'er Drive-In opened in 1950 as the single screen Bell Drive-In. It was located in the Del Paso Heights district of Sacramento. The 49'er Drive-In closed around 2000.
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This ad from 1989 includes the 49'er Drive-In.
Here is a photo of the 49'er.
i lived is saramento for about 4 years in the early 1990s and i remember coming to the 49er plenty of times me a my father used to always go to the small flea market they had on the weekends . i remember seeing a double feature here in 1992 it was american me and sleepwalkers the last time i saw a movie here was like in 1994 it was the last action hero sad to here this place is now closed because it was part of my early teen years …..
It looks like it was one screen in 1957:
http://tinyurl.com/yktaqft
I was intrigued about the placement of six screens— so on the chance there might be something of a ghost image I put the address into Google Earth..The size of this place is incredible—scaled to the highway and the cars passing by. They must have spent a king’s ransom on paving—must have been a real solar collector gathering daytime heat and radiating it during the night’s shows. I wonder what size crew it took to run the place. The Google history shots run from ‘93 to 2011. Interesting how the technology progressed.
Goggle Aerial 1993
Uploaded 1964 also…
I loved this theater and living two doors down from the lady and her daughters that managed the 49er and knowing them personally was such a pleasure.You could say i grew up at this theater and i mean that.Its truley sad to see outdoor theaters dieing off like this.You just cannot get the same exsperience from a walkin theater.
I remember growing up and always wanting to go to this drive in but we never went because the Sacramento 6 was a lot closer. That all changed in 1999 when I went to 49er Drive In for my first and only time to see the first “Scary Movie”. By the time I got my drivers licence it had already closed down. RIP 49er, I wish I could have got to know you better.
Century Circuit Inc and Century Theatres are two entirely different companies. Somebody may want to go through the links for both and make sure of that.