Comments about Starview Drive-In in Boulder Creek, CA

MichaelKilgore on May 14, 2024 at 3:42 am

Starview Drive-In Grand Opening ad with photo 03 Oct 1947, Fri Santa Cruz Sentinel (Santa Cruz, California) Newspapers.com

The Starview opened on Oct. 3, 1947, based on its grand opening ad in the Santa Cruz Sentinel. No mention of its opening program, but its ads soon added that there was “Never a foggy night at the Starview Drive-In Theatre.”

The Starview (“No Fog!”) continued to advertise in the Sentinel through August 24, 1956. Its movies on that Friday were “Escape From Fort Bravo” and “Naked Alibi.”

A note in January 1958 mentioned new houses going up “on the site of the old Starview drive-in theater”.

Joe Vogel on May 27, 2019 at 5:17 am

The Starview Drive-In was opened in 1947, and was the first drive-in theater in Santa Cruz County. The owners were Frank Paone and John Forde who, in 1949, would open the much larger Encina Drive-In in Santa Cruz. They operated the Encina in partnership with a regional chain called Trans-California Theaters, but I’ve been unable to discover if the same arrangement was in effect at the Starview.

davidcoppock on October 18, 2018 at 1:57 pm

375 cars.

jwmovies on October 13, 2016 at 10:15 am

The address for this Drive-in was 18000 Big Basin Hwy, Boulder Creek, CA 95006.

Please update.

terrywade on February 5, 2015 at 4:49 pm

This was such a nice to visit when I was a kid. They closed in the mid 50’s and never put in a wide CinemaScope® screen. Same owners I think as the old Burl Theatre in Boulder Creek, that building is still around but no longer a movie theatre.

Drive-In 54 on August 3, 2013 at 12:15 am

I think in closed in 1957.

Drive-In 54 on August 3, 2013 at 12:05 am

Address…Big Basin Hwy and Moon Dr Boulder Creek, CA 95006

TLSLOEWS on November 18, 2010 at 8:41 pm

Thanks for the photos Chuck.

Starview Drive-In

18000 Big Basin Highway, Boulder Creek, CA 95006

18000 Big Basin Highway,
Boulder Creek, CA 95006