Ace Drive-In
8015 S. Imperial Road,
Lemon Grove,
CA
92045
8015 S. Imperial Road,
Lemon Grove,
CA
92045
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The Ace Drive-In closed in 1986 and was replaced by a grocery store.
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The Ace Drive-In had a capacity for 900 cars in 1980.
Here is a 1964 aerial photo. The LA Times reported in the late 80s that the Ace was razed in 1984 and replaced by housing. That appears to be more accurate, if you look at the current aerial photo.
http://tinyurl.com/ylsz88e
3615 Grove Street maps properly. An apartment complex now stands on the site
old aerial: http://www.historicaerials.com/aerials.php?scale=1.04200837212108E-05&lat=32.744708&lon=-117.027258&year=1964
A better address for this drive-in would be 8024 Broadway, Lemon Grove, California 91945. The entrance is still there. The screen faced away from Broadway towards Lemon Grove Way.
JW is correct the entrance was next to where the car wash is now. The theater took up the land now covered by the village walk town house development. You used to go down a private roadway and turn left into the drive in the road also continued north between the drive in and the business that is a cabinet shop now and came out on Lemon Grove way. The road always had some huge potholes. In the late seventies and early eighties it was five dollars a car to go to the Ace drive in. All the mount Miguel high stundents spent some serious time there watching those movies.
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