Lincoln Drive-In
6612 Lincoln Avenue,
Buena Park,
CA
90620
6612 Lincoln Avenue,
Buena Park,
CA
90620
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Located in the Cypress/Buena Park district on what was originally Lincoln Boulevard. It opened as the Cina-Car Drive-In prior to 1949. The original capacity was for 375 cars.
By 1955, it had been renamed Lincoln Drive-In and the capacity had been increased to 600 cars. My family often went to this theater in the 1960’s. By 1964 it had stopped charging per person and adopted a "$1.50 per carload" policy which meant that everything you heard in The Beach Boys song "Drive-In" happened there – sneaking a case of beer in the theater in the trunk, partying in the lot while the movie was playing just like in "Grease", and seeing a lot of classic movies there cheaply.
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Donald John Long
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A further comment – as noted elsewhere, this drive-in originally was back-to-back with the Buena Park Drive-In, which was actually a better theater, but unfortunately fell victim to the economic woes which led to this theater charging a buck and a half a carload in the mid-1960s just to stay in business.
Like many California Drive-ins, this theatre shared the lot with another Drive-in, the Buena Park, before merging operations as the Buena Park Lincoln. Demolished in 1996, the land was redeveloped for residential use.
This is actually a duplicate listing as the Buena Park and Licoln drive-ins were back to back. The Lincoln was twinned to create the Buena Park Tri-plex.
Here is a May 1949 ad from the Press-Telegram:
http://tinyurl.com/3y363e
Uploaded aerial views from 1954,1972,1995.
Hopefully somebody here can tell us which DI is which.