Village Drive-In
4213 Montgomery Drive,
Santa Rosa,
CA
95405
4213 Montgomery Drive,
Santa Rosa,
CA
95405
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Previously operated by: Redwood Theatres Inc.
Architects: Gale Santocono
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The Village Drive-In was opened July 16, 1952 with Esther Williams in “Texas Carnival” & Walter Pidgeon in “The Sellout”. It was closed in 1986 and has since been demolished. It had a rather distinctive two-sided marquee. This must have been one of the larger drive-ins in the area as it held space for 750 cars.
The Village Drive-In was closed on March 6, 1982 with Burt Reynolds in “The Cannonball Run”, Bette Midler in “Jinxed” & Clint Eastwood in “Firefox”.
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Ken McIntyre
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Summerfield road right across from Howarth Park (which was part of Spring Lake). Found it on Google. Tennis courts and parking lot are still there. Amazing. :–)
Opps … Uploaded Thumbnail by mistake have added the full sided Image.
Above address is incorrect. Approx. address for this drive-in was 4213 Montgomery Drive. Shadow Ln. was the entrance.
The Summerfield address above is where the Summerfield/Lakeview theatre (which opened before the drive-in closed) is located.
jwmovies is correct. At this link you can see the drive-in outlined on the 1955 USGS map at Historic Aerials.
Because Google Maps isn’t fetching the right location for our page, here is a link to a corrected map. I used 4201 Shadow Lane to get Google to put an icon (a letter “A” in a circle rather than the usual pin icon) on top of the residential project that now occupies the site of the drive-in.
Here is Street View looking up Shadow Lane from Montgomery Drive, the former entrance to the drive-in.
The Historic Aerials link in my previous comment isn’t working. Try this one.
Neither of my links to Historic Aerials is working. Go to their hom page and paste this address into the Search field:
4201 Shadow Lane, Santa Rosa, CA
Then pick “T1955” from the column in the upper left corner of the aerial view the site fetches, and you get the 1955 map. Zoom in using the row of circles at the lower right corner of the map. Selecting the fifth or sixth circle from the left gives a good scale.
I worked at the Village Drive In in 1955-56 as a cashier and met my husband of 57 years there. It was a great time!
Grand Opening was July 16, 1952
better quality scan of the grand opening ad at
Found on Newspapers.com
Final night of operation was March 6, 1983 with “The Cannonball Run”, “Jinxed and "Firefox”. The screen was brought down that following Friday.