After being married on 12/31/81 the first place that my wife and I lived was in the Margarita Townhouse apartments which are around the corner from where the Torrance Drive-In was located. From our bedroom window we could see the films being screened but, alas, the drive-in was closed soon after to make way for the gated community that occupies the land today. This would have been sometime in the first half of 1982. Our daughter now goes to Bishop Montgomery High School and just about every time I pick her up from school I think about the old drive-in.
Here is a marquee shot from this past Friday night
Here’s a night shot from June 18th:
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Here’s a night shot of the theater marquee:
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Thanks for looking.
Elvis Costello played a free concert at the El Rey on May 28, 2008. I arrived too late to get inside but took a couple shots of the marquee.
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Correction: My wife and I were married on 12/31/87 so the Torrance Drive-In would have closed the first half of 1988. Sorry for any confusion.
After being married on 12/31/81 the first place that my wife and I lived was in the Margarita Townhouse apartments which are around the corner from where the Torrance Drive-In was located. From our bedroom window we could see the films being screened but, alas, the drive-in was closed soon after to make way for the gated community that occupies the land today. This would have been sometime in the first half of 1982. Our daughter now goes to Bishop Montgomery High School and just about every time I pick her up from school I think about the old drive-in.