Collection: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: Lee gave the sign (4) a Streamline Moderne look, but the screen structure (5) itself is almost completely utilitarian.
Date:: 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Lee, S. Charles, 1899-1990
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

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.
Date:: April 10, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: This view of the screen shows the typical drive-in parking lot and speaker stanchions. The wings flanking the projection screen were built to deflect light from passing cars and also to obstruct the view of the screen from non-paying viewers outside the parking lot.
Date:: April 10, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:: October 4, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:: October 5, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:: October 5, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:: October 15, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:: October 15, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: A series of snapshots taken at the construction site shows how the screen structure was framed on the ground and then tilted up using wooden wheels as fulcrums. This innovative construction technique was borrowed from concrete tilt-slab construction pioneered in Southern California in the early part of the century by Irving Gill and later used by other Southern California modernists.
Date:: October 15, 1948
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962

Description:: Note on reverse: This theatre is designed for a residential neighborhood of modern character. It will be built of glass and stone. See the similar Bay Theatre in Pacific Palisades (11301-11310).
Date:: [between 1955-1962]
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Hoffman-Luckhaus
Collection:: S. Charles Lee Papers, 1919-1962