Santa Fe Theatre
2170 Santa Fe Avenue,
Long Beach,
CA
90810
2170 Santa Fe Avenue,
Long Beach,
CA
90810
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The Santa Fe Theatre was one of the many neighborhood theatres that was located around the Long Beach area.
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William Gabel
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Having lived on the Westside of Long Beach for many years during the late 50’s and sixties I have many fond memories the “Passion Pit”. I seem to remember it cost a $1.50 a carload to get in and in later years when the price was per person hiding a few friends in the trunk of the car to save beer money. I still have a post speaker that somehow became unattached during a fast exit.
Was this a drive in or an indoor theater?
I think this was a hard top theater.
I think that the poster “maxwellshammer” is confusing the Santa Fe Theatre at the corner of Santa Fe Avenue and Hill Street, with the Long Beach Drive-In, which was off of Santa Fe, just north of the 405 Freeway. The Santa Fe was a bowling alley by the time I moved to the westside in the late 1950’s. The bowling alley was torn down in the early 1980’s. When the Navy moved out, so did most of the customers.
The drive-in was torn down many years later and office buildings for the Hughes Corporation where built there. The headquarters for the Long Beach Unified School District is now in one of those buildings.
Here is a 1983 photo when the theater was a bowling alley:
http://tinyurl.com/dlkfbt
Here are two more photos from 1983:
Photo1
Photo2
The 2100 block of Santa Fe is now apartments.