Monte Vista Drive-In

1101 Grant Road,
Mountain View, CA 94040

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Previously operated by: Blumenfeld Theater Circuit

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Monte Vista Drive-In

The Monte Vista Drive-In was opened August 4, 1950. It was operated by Sunnymount Theaters Inc. Would like to hear stories and know more about it, it was closed in 1978 and soon demolished.

Contributed by Garrett M. Hammell

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jwmovies
jwmovies on October 26, 2012 at 9:35 am

Approx. address for this drive-in was 1101 Grant Road.

MarkC
MarkC on June 18, 2015 at 1:01 am

I used to go there when I was a kid in the 1960s. I saw the movie Goldfinger the James Bond movie and Oceans 11 starring Frank Sinatra. I remember the place very well. They had a concession stand in the middle of the place and they had a man riding around on a bike with a big flat carrier on the front that used to throw rowdy kids out of the place.

Ncoast707
Ncoast707 on July 23, 2017 at 3:10 am

I saw Psycho there with my parents in 1960, and was ready to crawl under the car seats at the end of it Gawd!

sdelas
sdelas on January 21, 2018 at 10:53 pm

Was their a playground at this drive-in?

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on February 22, 2018 at 11:24 pm

Here’s an amazing 3D-modeled video tribute to the Monte Vista: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNwuDDbIy2E

MichaelKilgore
MichaelKilgore on December 10, 2019 at 4:13 pm

Boxoffice, Aug. 5, 1950: “Ronald Kramer received two one-year passes to Sunnymount theatres as a prize for his winning entry in the name contest for the new drive-in theatre. "Monte Vista” Kramer’s entry, was judged the best of more than 500 suggested. B. A. Vecchiarelli, district manager of Sunnymount, made the award."

rivest266
rivest266 on April 17, 2024 at 6:17 pm

Grand opening ad posted.

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