Union City Drive-In
31200 Alvarado Niles Road,
Union City,
CA
94587
31200 Alvarado Niles Road,
Union City,
CA
94587
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Once popular drive-in off the Nimitz Freeway at Alvarado-Niles Road, opened originally by Syufy (later Century Theaters) as a two screen drive-in. The fare was largely first-run films.
Over time, it grew to six screens. The drive-in closed to much fanfare in 2000 and in its place, the Union Landing shopping center replaced it. Century Theaters now operates a popular 25 screen stadium theater on this site.
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As of today, only two drive-ins still operate in the Bay Area(both Century Theaters owned)—The Capitol 6 in San Jose(year-round) and the Solano 1 & 2 in Concord (Memorial Day to Labor Day only). The latter has had rumors of closing during the past two years.
Other drive-ins operated by Syufy in the Bay Area over the years(all closed):
Island Automovie(Alameda)
Coliseum 4(Oakland)
Winchester 3(San Jose)
Moffitt 3(Mountain View)
Burlingame 4(Burlingame)
Geneva 4(Daly City/San Francisco border)
Mission 1 & 2 (Daly City)
Hilltop (Richond)
One other Concord one called the Automovie
The Solano is now closed, leaving the Capitol 6 as the last Drive-in in the Bay Area
Status should be demolished. The 1980 IMPA gives an address of 31200 Alvarado Niles Road.
Here is an undated photo:
http://tinyurl.com/n3perm
That one is a little too blurry for me.
Aerial from 1966 at View link
Some corrections to some of the above comments as trained as a manager @ this drive-in (as well as worked at Coliseum i ‘82 and managed Island & Century Almaden in '85):
The Century 25 @ Union Landing opened 11/98 (I was there when it opened). The drive-in closed about a year prior.
Winchester ended w/6 screens, Solano reopened, Moffett ended w/4 screens, Mission NEVER had more than 1 screen.
Other Syufy D/I’s in the area were Vallejo 3, Spruce 4 (South San Francisco), Sunnyvale 2, Redwood 4 (Redwood City) and Auto Movies 3 (Salinas).