Bridgehead 1-2-3 Drive-In
3625 E. 18th Street,
Antioch,
CA
94509
3625 E. 18th Street,
Antioch,
CA
94509
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Boxoffice, Nov. 15, 1971: “George Stamm, operator of the Campanil Theatre and the Stamm Theatre, has announced that he will begin to twin the Bridgehead Drive-In, Antioch. The work is slated to start around the first of the year and should take approximately four months to complete.”
After all three screens were demolished in 1993, the Kmart began construction at the site and opened on April 14, 1994 as the second Kmart to operate in Antioch.
It became the only Kmart there after its other longtime Kmart location on Auto Center Drive closed the following year on August 27, 1995 after a 22-year run.
The Kmart closed on November 25, 2018 and the building is currently vacant.
As of 2023, the Kmart was still vacant, as well as the blue-roofed Burger King which closed in 2019. The 7-Eleven and Mobil (ex-Valero) gas stations were still operational to this very day, as well as a car wash next door.
Twinned in February 1973, tripled on Christmas Day 1980.
The Bridgehead 1-2-3 Drive-In closed for the final time on November 1, 1992. All three screens were removed the following year according to a 1993 aerial view.
Now Sears HVAC (Screens 1 and 2) and Bridgehead Self Storage (Screen 3). Entrance is now Mobil Gas.
Please update.
Again as I had posted on the Los Altos D/I (Long Beach) page, ths KMart that replaced the drive in is permanantly closed. Not because of bankruptcy unless bankruptcy and COVID19 mean the same thing!
Apparently this type of thing has been going on for years all the country… too bad! 🤣🤣
One of the Bridgehead’s screens lives on at the Skyline Drive-In in Barstow. According to a note in Barstow’s Desert Dispatch, that screen “was originally 60-by-90 feet but had to be trimmed down to 35-by-45 feet due to damage along the screen’s edges”
Demolished in 1994.
Uploaded some aerials. It is funny that they built on the drive-in theatre site. If you look around at the current aerial alot of open spaces yet.
There are some aerial views of the drive-in on this site, from the fifties and sixties. The 1949 view shows only farmland. Enter the address on the site to see the photos.
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For that matter why must they keep tearing down drive-ins?
Why do they always put in a Burger King when they build a K-Mart? Why not a nice French restaurant? It doesn’t reflect well on K-Mart’s target demographic.