Marin Motor Movies

55 Bellam Boulevard,
San Rafael, CA 94901

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Previously operated by: Blumenfeld Theater Circuit

Previous Names: Rafael Motor Movies

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Marin Motor Movies

The Marin Motor Movies was opened by Blumenfeld Theater Circuit on May 21, 1948 with a 600-car capacity. It was closed around 1982. The site of this former drive-in is now the Marin Square shopping center.

Contributed by Chris Ellinger

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Celeste
Celeste on August 15, 2011 at 2:39 pm

We used to go there when I was kid. You could see the Screen as you rounded Redwood Highway. It was always really cool to be driving by at night and to catch a few glimpses of the Movie that was playing.

jwmovies
jwmovies on September 18, 2018 at 5:17 pm

55 Bellam Boulevard is the correct address not 555. Please update. This drive in now shopping center is located between Hwys 101 & 580. 555 is further east in the Canal District.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on February 6, 2019 at 8:07 pm

From the Marin Independent Journal’s History Watch:

Marin County’s first drive-in theater, Marin Motor Movies opened in 1948 and featured a 41- by 52-foot screen and “hook-on” car speakers that could be tuned loud or soft “depending on the amount of attention the occupants wish to devote to the screen.” [Capacity was 600.] A sunken building (to avoid obstructing vision) housed the projection room, snack bar and rest rooms. The Marin Square shopping center now occupies the site.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on October 29, 2019 at 11:23 am

The drive-in appeared to be intact in a 1982 aerial photo, but a 1983 aerial showed construction of the shopping center underway.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on January 11, 2023 at 8:42 am

Boxoffice, May 22, 1948: “Blumenfeld Theatres opened the Marin County Motor Movies May 21.”

Scott Neff
Scott Neff on December 19, 2023 at 12:49 pm

To my knowledge this was never the Marin County Motor Movies, but always Marin Motor Movies.

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