Pickwick Drive-In
1100 W. Alameda Avenue,
Burbank,
CA
91506
1100 W. Alameda Avenue,
Burbank,
CA
91506
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In the early 1980’s my aunt worked at this drive-in and I remember going here many nights because she would get us in for free. A large retail complex with a Pavilions Market is now located on the site.
Actually this drive-in is best known for being the filming location for the drive-in scene in the movie “Grease.” The great “Dancing Hot Dog” intermission trailer from Filmack plays on the screen as John Travolta sings the song “Sandy” from the playground area in front of the screen.
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I remember sneaking in a friends trunk to see “The Godfather.” Lived around the corner in 1958-60 and pulled out of our driveway to immediately join the line for “The Absent-Minded Professor.”
In 1985, it was only a dollar on Thursday nights. I went to see anything I could! I can only remember “Runaway” with Tom Selleck.
I had to run a small clip for Micheal Landon there while he was shooting a scene from Highway To Heaven. He was a great guy. He autographed his glossy and gave it to my mother. She had it framed and displayed in her living room. :)
Hey—-I LIKED “Straight To Hell!” The Clash, The Pogues and a really bad script—-you couldn’t beat it…though we probably should have tried to…!
One of the last places you could see the Pickwick Drive-In is in the terrific action thriller “BLUE THUNDER” (1983) starring Roy Scheider and Candy Clark. There is an exciting chase sequence in the movie filmed partly on the ground and partly from a helicopter, and it works well in the film. The Pickwick played small roles in films before, due to its location in Burbank, but this was its last hurrah.
One of the last major events here, and no doubt one of its last full houses, was the world premiere of Alex Cox’s “Straight to Hell,” which brought out quite an interesting crowd of Hollywood hepcats, none of them paying the slightest attention to the awful film.