El Rancho I & II Drive-In
157 Hickey Boulevard,
South San Francisco,
CA
94080
157 Hickey Boulevard,
South San Francisco,
CA
94080
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New picture… alot of broken links.
The various Life Magazine photos linked above do not depict the El Rancho Drive-In in South San Francisco, but the Rancho Drive-In in San Diego. The April 24, 1948, issue of Boxoffice Magazine published an article about the new Rancho in San Diego, with photos. It is unmistakably the same screen tower and mural seen in the Life Magazine photos. There are also easily recognized photos of the Rancho on a web page about San Diego drive-ins published by the San Diego Weekly Reader,
Make life simple. Here are some El Rancho related photos from Life magazine.
Here is another Life photo from 1948:
http://tinyurl.com/6xr42x
You can count on that.
This is a silly conversation, and I’m not going to waste more time on it. Please feel free to comment on each Life photo that I post.
It makes no difference how many photos there are. misterboo is a new member, give him a chance to post the photos. If he decides not to post anymore of the photos, that is a different story. When someone posts a link that contains multiple photos, that doesn’t give you the green light to milk it dry.
I think there are two million photos linked, according to Google. If misterboo has an extra year or two to post them all, great.
misterboo found that link and posted a photo on the Brentwood Theatre listing and now you feel that you should link to all of the other photos without giving misterboo a chance to finish?
There is a new collection of Life magazine photos on Google. This 1948 photo may also be on the Getty collection posted in July 2005:
http://tinyurl.com/67rllp
I grew up during the “70’s in the Serramonte area. We could see the movies nightly from our living room windows. I wish I knew then about the FM Radio station! :–)
Wow, I grew up right around the corner in Buri Buri. My parents took me to the El Rancho almost every weekend, I’d pack up my blanket and watch in the back of mom’s 68 Barracuda – I can remember many movies but the scariest one I remember was Jaws, think I was about 8. What great memories…
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Go to this link and search for “Rancho Drive-In” (leave off the EL) and you will find about a dozen photos from 1948.
This poor DriveIn was constantly “fogged out” and eventually
leased out by its original owner to an independent who could not
afford to keep it going thus resulting in the eventual sale
for condominiums which don’t mind cold weather all year long.
I remember seeing this drive-in from the 280 freeway. The screen looked like a little animated postage stamp, off in the distance from that vantage point.