Monte Vista Drive-In

1101 Grant Road,
Mountain View, CA 94040

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rivest266
rivest266 on April 17, 2024 at 1:17 pm

Grand opening ad posted.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on December 10, 2019 at 11:13 am

Boxoffice, Aug. 5, 1950: “Ronald Kramer received two one-year passes to Sunnymount theatres as a prize for his winning entry in the name contest for the new drive-in theatre. "Monte Vista” Kramer’s entry, was judged the best of more than 500 suggested. B. A. Vecchiarelli, district manager of Sunnymount, made the award."

davidcoppock
davidcoppock on October 6, 2018 at 7:50 am

800 cars.

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on February 22, 2018 at 6:24 pm

Here’s an amazing 3D-modeled video tribute to the Monte Vista: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNwuDDbIy2E

sdelas
sdelas on January 21, 2018 at 5:53 pm

Was their a playground at this drive-in?

Ncoast707
Ncoast707 on July 22, 2017 at 10:10 pm

I saw Psycho there with my parents in 1960, and was ready to crawl under the car seats at the end of it Gawd!

MarkC
MarkC on June 17, 2015 at 8:01 pm

I used to go there when I was a kid in the 1960s. I saw the movie Goldfinger the James Bond movie and Oceans 11 starring Frank Sinatra. I remember the place very well. They had a concession stand in the middle of the place and they had a man riding around on a bike with a big flat carrier on the front that used to throw rowdy kids out of the place.

jwmovies
jwmovies on October 26, 2012 at 4:35 am

Approx. address for this drive-in was 1101 Grant Road.

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on February 12, 2010 at 10:18 pm

Here is a 1956 aerial photo:
http://tinyurl.com/y89rhrw

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on February 12, 2010 at 10:13 pm

Here is an ad circa early 1960s:
http://tinyurl.com/yb9yjnp

kencmcintyre
kencmcintyre on June 12, 2009 at 1:14 am

This drive-in opened on August 4, 1950 at a cost of $150,000. It closed in 1978 and was replaced by a low-income housing development. Here is a photo circa 1950s:
http://tinyurl.com/mo6rtm

scottfavareille
scottfavareille on March 31, 2004 at 4:35 pm

I do recall in the 1970’s for several years before its close, it did run triple bills at the admission price of $1.50 per carload. It was an independent at that time.