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The West Wind drive-in movie theater sign at 9616 Oates Drive, Sacramento on Friday, March 3, 2023. Yelp users — 770 of them — rated the drive-in an average of 3.7 stars.
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).
In early 2013, it was announced that Century 21, 22, 23, and 24 theaters were soon to be redeveloped. The company's drive-in theaters and swap meets were also not part of the merger and also reverted to Syufy Enterprises ownership. They now operate under the brand name "West Wind Drive-Ins and Public Markets".
El Rancho Drive-In. Sparks, Nevada Also owned by West Wind, this Reno-area theater is known for offering single, double and triple features, and has sometimes paired new-release movies of vastly ...
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During the 1950s and 1960s, it was one of the premier first-run movie palaces in the Sacramento area. As the decade turned to the 1970s, it was reduced to mostly sub-run fare. In the early 1980s, the Crest closed down for a time while several attempts were made to revive the theatre in many forms, including a dinner theatre.
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A newly built drive-in screen near Superior, Iowa, 2009 Stars & Stripes Drive-in at 5101 Highway 84 West in Lubbock, Texas, 2010 Beginning in the late 1970s and extending through the mid-1990s, those drive-ins still operating acquired a quasi-novelty status, catering to the wave of "boomer nostalgia " and loyal patrons.