Lemon Bowl Cinema-Dine
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Here’s a crisper version of a photo that someone else uploaded here earlier. I found it in the 2010 book Lemon Grove (Images of America) by Helen M. Ofield and Pete Smith. Not my copyright, of course. The original caption:
Lemon Bowl Cinema-Dine, Federal Boulevard, 1949. Ira Dunham and Oliver McNeel ran Suburban Theatres, Inc., in Lemon Grove from 1949 to 1953. Patrons paid 25c to 50c and received two speakers, one for the movie and one for food orders. Carhops delivered food on little electric carts. Cinema-Dine opened with Go for Broke, a movie honoring the Japanese American heroes of the 442nd Regiment. The state bought the property for construction of Highway 94. Today the site holds a Toyota dealership. (Courtesy John S. Dunham.)
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By the way, the caption is wrong on at least one point. “Go for Broke!” was released in 1951, years after the Lemon Bowl opened. My guess is that it played as a season opener, and some researcher got a wire crossed.