How I remember the Victory Drive In! We moved to North Hollywood back in 1970 just up the street on Welby Way. We say the movie “The Exorcist” through the ivy covered fence along Morse Street just adjacent to my school Saint Jane Francis De Chantel. What a site at 7 th grade age. I attended Saint Jane’s and we used to watch that way now and then, and also from atop the school office roof top which had a built in overhead portion that jutted out enough to give you cover if raining. It was awesome. We drank beers with the older bothers and ate pizza hut pizza and sometimes Matt and Tony’s subs while watching the movie right there for free any night you wanted. Even had sound. Someone’s brother worked there at the theater and ran wires from one of those speaker poles closest to the school, and the wired ran through the cracks in the asphault to the wall between the theater and the school right below us, then went up and connected to a small speaker right there. It was incredible. Free movies and only a select few knew it was even there. One day during morning prayer role call in the school yard, we saw the Janitor up there picking up beer bottles and trash and thought to ourselves, oh ShT the jig is up! We got up there on the roof by climbing up Mary’s Statue at the head of the schoolyard by the offices.
Also, I’ve been in the screen once and climbed the stairs. And when it was a dirt lot being prepped for a shopping center, a friend and I were trespassing and climbed aboard a tractor that had the keys in it, so we srted it up and almost were tempted to throw it into gear but we thought better. (Our catholic conscience kicking in maybe) and I’m sure it would’ve gone straight through to the building across the street across Victory Blvd (Matt and Tony’s?) oh no!!!!
What memories conjured up in our heads as we would drive north in our daddy’s car looking at the drive in screen with those big letters VICTORY when going north on Coldwater Canyon just past Grant High School. And thinking of all those times.
How I remember the Victory Drive In! We moved to North Hollywood back in 1970 just up the street on Welby Way. We say the movie “The Exorcist” through the ivy covered fence along Morse Street just adjacent to my school Saint Jane Francis De Chantel. What a site at 7 th grade age. I attended Saint Jane’s and we used to watch that way now and then, and also from atop the school office roof top which had a built in overhead portion that jutted out enough to give you cover if raining. It was awesome. We drank beers with the older bothers and ate pizza hut pizza and sometimes Matt and Tony’s subs while watching the movie right there for free any night you wanted. Even had sound. Someone’s brother worked there at the theater and ran wires from one of those speaker poles closest to the school, and the wired ran through the cracks in the asphault to the wall between the theater and the school right below us, then went up and connected to a small speaker right there. It was incredible. Free movies and only a select few knew it was even there. One day during morning prayer role call in the school yard, we saw the Janitor up there picking up beer bottles and trash and thought to ourselves, oh ShT the jig is up! We got up there on the roof by climbing up Mary’s Statue at the head of the schoolyard by the offices.
Also, I’ve been in the screen once and climbed the stairs. And when it was a dirt lot being prepped for a shopping center, a friend and I were trespassing and climbed aboard a tractor that had the keys in it, so we srted it up and almost were tempted to throw it into gear but we thought better. (Our catholic conscience kicking in maybe) and I’m sure it would’ve gone straight through to the building across the street across Victory Blvd (Matt and Tony’s?) oh no!!!!
What memories conjured up in our heads as we would drive north in our daddy’s car looking at the drive in screen with those big letters VICTORY when going north on Coldwater Canyon just past Grant High School. And thinking of all those times.