101 Drive-In
4826 E. Telephone Road,
Ventura,
CA
93003
4826 E. Telephone Road,
Ventura,
CA
93003
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MagicLantern, you are wrong about its opening date
It opened on March 16th, 1948. Proof is on this page at View link
Thanks Mike.
It parked 800 cars and was owned by 101 Theatre Corp, Reeves Espy was the president of that company.
Since we already have an address and photos for this drive-in that might come in handy for a skydiver.
Here is a 1980 aerial view:
http://tinyurl.com/yl5t7q3
Here is an October 1958 ad from the Oxnard Press-Courier:
http://tinyurl.com/nfe8br
More photos are here.
This classic film was playing at the 101 in September 1982, according to the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/3xqp56
The 101 Drive-In when it was a single screen drive-in had a car capacity of 800 cars. It was operated once by 101 Theatres Corp. and later by Pacific Theatres.
The link posted in the comment above shows this former drive-in as a triplex.
Here is a link with photos:
http://tinyurl.com/puaj8
In the late 1970s I lived in Newbury Park in Ventura County. We lived across the street from the Thousand Oaks Drive-in. Most weekends my family would see a film at the Thousand Oaks Drive-in but when we wanted to see something that was not playing there we would drive up Highway 101 and see a film at the 101 Drive-in which had multiple screens.
Opened in 1956 as the One-O-One Drive-In Theatre, it operated under this name until 1967 or 1968, at which point it became the Pacific One-O-One Drive-In Theatre, from 1969 through its closing. A huge new clutch of shopping malls inhabits this space now.