Warner Drive-In
7361 Warner Avenue,
Huntington Beach,
CA
92647
7361 Warner Avenue,
Huntington Beach,
CA
92647
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Opened June 30th, 1961. Small ad posted.
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Boxoffice, Feb. 19, 1962: “Pacific Drive-In Theatres took over operation of the Warner Drive-In in Huntington Beach and the Lincoln Drive-In at Cypress, effective the 14th”
A photo of the entrance in the LA Times dated 12/26/84 stated that the drive-in would soon be torn down to make way for an industrial park. The drive-in had been showing Spanish movies.
This was actually close to the Harbor Drive-in so we often wound up here if the film there was one we had seen or it was crowded. This theater was subject often to the thick fogs that rolled in from the beach since this was a low lying area. Of course sometimes with a date you may never notice the fog since you weren’t watching the film anyway.
This Drive-In was at the corner of Warner and Gothard in Huntington Beach. I remember going there to see a re-release of Bambi in the late sixties or early seventies with a carload of family members. It had a playground just below the screen where there would be houndreds of kids playing before the film started. Around the parameter of the complex were many huge eucalyptus trees. Just before it closed, Edwards Theatres opened a brand new megaplex at the Charter Center a block away. That was death for this place.