Ah, yes, the wonderful double bills featuring The Boy With Green Hair and That Wonderful Urge. Quite a combination, eh? Wow. The Boy With Green Hair, starring Dean Stockwell, was released in 1948, a little before my time.
The Edwards Drive-In Theater, located at 4469 East Live Oak Avenue, Arcadia, CA 91006 was a frequent venue for our family’s movie going. Lots of Disney movies in those days. We saw the Swiss Family Robinson here. Loved the plush Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse. at Disneyland. Odd that I would remember that. Saw the 1955 Disney movie Lady and the Tramp. So how could I have seen it if it was released in ’55? Reissues. It was reissued in ’62 and ’72. I saw it sometime in ’67 or ’68.
See here, but according to Cinema Treasures . . .
Architect S. Charles Lee designed a number of drive-ins during his career and some theaters for James Edwards, II.
Architect S. Charles Lee designed a number of drive-ins during his career and some theatres for James Edwards II. Edwards Theatres opened this drive-in, designed by Lee, in 1948. Other Lee-designed theatres for Edwards were the Tumbleweed in El Monte, the original Temple in Temple City, and the Tujunga in Tujunga.
This 750-car site was taken over by Pacific Theatres in 1954 and until its closing and demolition in the late-1980’s it was always called Edwards Drive-In.
Here is a clip:
And this classic with Tyrone Power, my mom’s favorite, and Gene Tierney.
If my memory serves me there was an Altadena Dairy farm across the street at the northeast corner of that intersection. Loved the smell of dairy-farm manure from across the street as I watched the 1968 classic, Herbie the Love Bug.
Be sure to check out a few drive-in resources here and here.
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