Jet Drive-In
500 West Avenue L,
Lancaster,
CA
93534
500 West Avenue L,
Lancaster,
CA
93534
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The address given in the above link from Lost Memory, and pretty much confirmed by Google Maps, is 500 West Avenue L, Lancaster, CA 93534. And I’m not sure whether it counts as “Demolshed” or “Closed,” although the screen tower and projection hut/snack bar look like they’re gone.
If the screen and the booth are gone, then it should be listed as demolished. I don’t see the screen in the aerial photo in the above link.
It’s definitely demolished. (I live locally and often drive past the site on Avenue L.) Only foundations remain. Unless you actually walked over the site, you’d never guess the drive-in theater had ever existed.
I lived in Lancaster from 1974 to 1979 and visited the Jet on several occasions. The last movie I recall seeing there was the WW2 movie A Bridge too FAR in 1977. The Lancaster Drive In seemed to get the better movies once they made it to Lancaster but if you wanted to see a Summer Blockbuster upon release you had to go down below to see them.
My last visit to Lancaster was 1986 and I am pretty sure the Jet was gone by then as was the Lancaster Drive In.
Using the 500 W. Avenue L address, I was able to locate the drive-in on this site. This is a 1959 aerial view:
http://tinyurl.com/ygpcnyk
Not much overhead in a drive-in.
Here is a little bit of information on this Drive-in. The Jet Drive-In was running movies in 1956 with room for 400 cars. It was owned by Western Amusements.
I have lived in Lancaster all of my life and have fond memories of the Jet Drive-in I went there allot as a kid seeing such movies like Harold and Maude, 007 Moonraker, Corvette Summer, The Blue Lagoon, Privet Eyes, Harry’s war, The Pirate Movie,and Rocky III
I have recently found a Geocach there with my boys I do withe there were still drive-in movies so my kids could experience the same things i did but they all seem to be gone now but it is nice to have the memories in my past to go back on.
Map is way off the ramps are still there the Jet Drive-In was on Avenue L near Sierra Highway
here is a street view of the jet
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lancaster,+CA,+United+States&ll=34.660322,-118.13678&spn=0.004907,0.009645&t=h&z=17&layer=c&cbll=34.660319,-118.137016&panoid=JPYAb5mlYvk4lpHlmxKiYw&cbp=12,228.13,,0,6.48
Here is a satellite view of the jet
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=34.660155,-118.137147&ll=34.660684,-118.136051&spn=0.004907,0.009645&sll=34.659528,-118.136051&sspn=0.004907,0.009645&num=1&t=h&z=17&iwloc=A
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