Vue Dale Drive-In
1546 S. Wenatchee Avenue,
Wenatchee,
WA
98801
1546 S. Wenatchee Avenue,
Wenatchee,
WA
98801
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Additional Info
Functions: Storage
Previous Names: Auto Vue Drive-In
Phone Numbers:
Box Office:
509.662.7740
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News About This Theater
- Oct 12, 2010 — Vue Dale Drive-in in Wenatchee closes
- Jul 22, 2010 — Big changes coming for movie-goers in Wenatchee
- Nov 12, 2009 — Wenatchee area theater and drive-in properties for sale
Opened in 1953 with Doris Day in “I’ll See You in My Dreams” & Marshall Thompson in “The Rose Bowl Story”. From the 1970’s the Vue Dale Drive-In was a twin screen drive-in with a capacity for 600 cars.
It was closed in October 2010 and by 2023 it was used by Vuedale Storage.
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Operated by Greime and Fasken Theaters in the early sixties.
According to this article, 2010 will most likely be the last year for this nearly sixty-year-old theater. Its owner, Sun Basin Theatres, is signaling that it plans to close it, along with another theater in East Wenatchee, and open a new megaplex in a converted former Kmart by May of 2011: View link
The Vue Dale closed for good on October 3, 2010. The property will be sold for redevelopment: View link
1956 Motion Picture Almanac calls it the AUTO VUE DRIVE-IN.
From a Geocities archive, three photos of the Vue Dale, circa 1999: http://www.reocities.com/Hollywood/Pavillion/2216/VueDale.html
There were two drive-in theaters in the Wenatchee area when I was a kid, both owned and operated by the people that ran the Vitaphone theater. The “Auto Vue” drive-in (built first) was at the North end of Wenatchee in the Sunnyslope area. The Vue Dale was in the South end near the Malaga area. As a kid, I only remember the Vue Dale having one screen (at that time).
as of 2018 everythings still intact
600 cars.
The Vue Dale Drive-In grand opening advertisement was found, but I cannot read the newspaper date because on how freaking blurry the picture is, so its opening date was partially found but was lost still. The theater opened as a single-screener with “I’ll See You In My Dreams” and “The Rose Bowl Story” with no extra short subjects, and was twinned sometime in the 1970s.
Now Vuedale Storage. Please update.