Harbor Drive-In
23444 S. Vermont Avenue,
Torrance,
CA
90502
23444 S. Vermont Avenue,
Torrance,
CA
90502
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This 1950’s drive-in was a favorite of family audiences during the 1950’s and 1960’s. My family went there often.
Operated by Pacific Theatres, the screen tower had a distinctive design and was painted a bright yellow, and featured that favorite of families at drive-ins, the children’s playground located just beneath the screen, and a busy snack bar.
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Donald John Long
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Here is an August 1965 LA Times ad for a swap meet at the Harbor:
http://tinyurl.com/ktqpzg
The LAT reported the robbery of the Harbor manager, Joseph Green, by a man and woman bandit team on July 20, 1954.
http://tinyurl.com/lbd3ac
Was that Bonnie and Clyde jr?
Here is a February 1960 ad from the LAT:
http://tinyurl.com/ngywh2
The floodgates are open.
This link should show an aerial view of the drive-in, circa 1952. If the link doesn’t work, let me know.
http://tinyurl.com/y9btafy
You’ve come full circle.
Still looking for any photos of the marquee or screen.
The Torrance Library recently digitized local papers going back to 1913. I have posted the link below. If you search for Harbor Drive-in, there are many entries about its colorful manager Joe Greene, along with ads, mostly in the 1950s.
http://www.torranceca.gov/libraryarchive/
The manager of the drive-in back in the early fifties was Joe Greene, as I mentioned in 2009. He was also an actor. In reading the local archives, there were a couple of occasions when he was an actor in the film that he was showing at the theater.