Pickwick Drive-In
1100 W. Alameda Avenue,
Burbank,
CA
91506
1100 W. Alameda Avenue,
Burbank,
CA
91506
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Burbank’s Pickwick Drive-In opened May 12, 1949 with Marguerite Chapman in “The Green Promise”. It had space for 781 cars.
Operated by Pacific Theatres, the theater is perhaps best known as the site of the World Premiere of Mel Brooks’s "Blazing Saddles". Warner Brothers held the premiere at this drive-in and the guests were led in on horses.
The Pickwick Drive-In was closed September 10, 1989 and was torn down in October 1989.
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The Pickwick Drive-in was used in the movie Grease(for the Drive-in scene?).
Does anyone know why the drive-in was called Pickwick?
Was the Pickwick Drive-in the first drive-in in the world to had a world premiere(Blazing saddles)?
The Pickwick Drive-In was also used in an episode of “The Rockford Files” where federal agents chase Rockford and Angel in his vehicle into the drive-in during the daytime.
Rip, Gene Wilder!
1989 image added via Rick Watts.
The two films seen in the drive-in scene in the movie Grease are(“The Blob”(i think?), a film staring Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin(opening credits of a unnamed movie seen briefly).
The Pickwick Drive-In was used for scenes in the 1976 movie Kiss of the Tarantula. A brief glimpse of the marquee is shown in the movie.
Opened with “The Green promise”. Site is now Rancho Marketplace Shopping Center.
This opened on May 12th, 1949. Grand opening ad posted as well as the Blazing Saddles world premiere ad.