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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As of September 2005, the 49er marquee is still there, but has now deteriorated further than what is seen in the link above.
While stationed at Mather AFB in 1968 I went there to see Elke Sommer in “Daniella by Night” which nad been heavily touted in PLAYBOY magazine a year or so previously. They must have had he cut version—it certainly didn’t do anything for me.
Architect, at least for the expansions of this location, was Vincent Raney.
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
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