Candlelite Pix Drive-In

I remember going to this drive in with my parents when I was a kid. I was probably only about 4 or 5 years old, maybe 6, so the year was probably 1971 or 1972.

My uncle’s construction company was in the same area as the drive-in. I remember the drive-in closed and my dad and I would drive past it to go to my uncle’s office. In my memory I can still see the tall gray metal wall with the letters PIX on it (it was probably the backside of the movie screen). I beleive when it was an operating theater, the PIX letters were made of red neon lights.

This story is dated 5/2/55:

Roger Bailey, of Patchogue, LA captured the 25-lap feature midget auto race at Candlelite Stadium yesterday afternoon. The racing program marked the close of Candlelite Stadium as a sporting arena and it will be torn down for a drive-in motion picture theater which is expected to be completed before July 1.

Part of the grandstand and all the bleachers on the left field side of the baseball diamond already have been razed. The several hundred fans who watched the midget racers yesterday sat in the right field bleachers and on the terrace.

Oh, yeah. I forgot that this most surely was a twin. One screen was the Candlelite and the other screen was the Pix.

Maybe they shortened it for the ad but when they were playing a Hammer double bill of “Scars of Dracula” and “Horror of Frankenstein” they listed themselves as Candle Pix Drive-In.

This Drive-In was called the Candelite-Pix, and was eventually twinned at some point. It was demolished for industrial development.