Drive-in theatre, San Diego, screen, street view

Item Overview

Title

Drive-in theatre, San Diego, screen, street view

Uniform title

Rancho Drive-In (San Diego, Calif.)

Architect

Lee, S. Charles, 1899-1990

Date Created

April 10, 1948

Collection

S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Notes

Description

The Rancho Drive-In in San Diego was built in the same year (1948) as the Edwards Drive-In in Arcadia. Although no construction photos survive, the construction technique was presumably similar. In this example, Lee used the street side of the screen structure to feature a colorful mural-like scene of the Mexican landscape illuminated from behind, a cultural reference appropriate to the border city of San Diego.

Physical Description

Dimensions

3.75 x 6 in.

Keywords

Genre

Black-and-white photographs
Aerial photographs

Subjects

Screens (projection)
Landmarks

Longitude

32.722237557537056

Latitude

-117.08447456359863

Resource type

still image