De Anza Drive-In

Old Drive in customer found, couldn’t find the exit:

http://azstarnet.com/news/local/crime/remains-found-at-old-tucson-drive-in-were-homicide-victim/article_3506dfb8-c574-11e1-a93a-0019bb2963f4.html

Two individuals in Tucson are attempting to build a sort of recreation of this theater, using screen parts salvaged from the site. The plan to give the new theater the De Anza’s original name, the Cactus. The project has a website and it has this page on it which relates some history of the Cactus/De Anza: http://www.cactusdriveintheater.com/history.html

The De Anza closed after the last show on October 3, 2009. Here is a brief story and a video about the closing.

Here is a photo of Ewart Edwards, who managed the De Anza and several other theaters in the Tucson area. The photo was in a retrospective in the AZ Daily Star in October 2006, shortly after Mr. Edwards passed away.
http://tinyurl.com/9kakkh

I posted the story, but then it changed screens to say I had to log in to return. Does it show the story when you click on the link?

That’s cute. Anyway, the story says a real estate developer wants to turn the property into a retail center.

Here is a recent photo.

recent photo:
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