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Pacific Theatres was an American chain of movie theaters in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of California. Pacific Theatres was owned by The Decurion Corporation which also owned and operated ArcLight Cinemas. In 2008, it sold its store locations in San Diego to Reading Cinemas.
The original address was at 2921 El Cajon Blvd in North Park [2] before it moved to 1100 Market Street at UC San Diego's Park and Market building in downtown San Diego. [3] [4] The new location had a soft opening in October, 2021 [5] and hosted screenings from the Sundance Film Festival in January, 2022. [6] It reopened in April, 2022. [3]
Sunset Drive-In. San Luis Obispo, California This theater is just off scenic Highway 101 and shows new films seven nights a week for admission prices ranging from $5 per child (5-11) to $11 per ...
The Lot was founded in 2015 in La Jolla, California, a community in San Diego. [1] It was founded by Adolfo Fastlicht, a cinema proprietor who previously co-founded Cinemex . The company's name is a shortening of the word " backlot ".
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In 1961, snack-bar employee Tom O'Leary was convicted of manslaughter for stabbing a patron named Dennis O'Connor to death at the drive-in. The O'Connor family sued the company for wrongful death but did not prevail. The dead man's family became active in city politics and eventually his sister Maureen O'Connor was elected mayor of San Diego in ...
The first drive-in was opened in 1933 in New Jersey. [1] As of 2017, around 330 drive-in theaters were operating in the United States, down from a peak of around 4,000 in the late 1950s. [ 2 ] At least six are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).
The concept of the drive-in came to the United States in 1933, according to West Wind, the current owner of Sacramento 6.The experience “only truly took off with the advent of in-car speakers in ...