Lake Drive-In
Big Bear Boulevard,
Big Bear Lake,
CA
92315
Big Bear Boulevard,
Big Bear Lake,
CA
92315
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Possibly the only drive-in theater to ever exist in the Big Bear area, this long-closed venue’s screen remains intact (as of summer 2007), along with the projection booth building, on its original plot of land in the area just south (towards the western edge) of Big Bear Lake.
Well within view of the lake itself, this property on the south side of Big Bear Boulevard is currently being used for other forms of (entertainment?) business.
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Lavar Burkhart
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Some more notes on this venue, along with a couple of photographs, can be found at the Drive-In web site: http://www.drive-ins.com/theater/catlak2
The 1970 motion picture almanac lists the Lake and Peter Pan Drive-Ins in Big Bear Lake as operated by Earle C. Strebe Theaters of Palm Springs.
if im correct,this is off of highway 18 and is home to a real estate bussiness.its very much intact.
I pass this place on HWY 18 everytime I visit friends in Big Bear. Yes, the old projection booth/snack bar building is now a real estate business.
Man, if I ever had the kind of money it would take to buy and revamp the place, I would do it in a heartbeat! Can you imagine watching a movie out under the stars up in the mountains of California? Sounds like heaven to me!
A couple of photos of the screen are on this site:
http://tinyurl.com/6n9ppz
The Lake Drive-In is listed in 1980 with a capacity for 400 cars.
There were actually two Drive Ins in Big Bear.
Two photos I took of the Lake in January 2009 can be seen here:
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The other drive in in Big Bear was called the Peter Pan Woodland Drive In