I did visit the Crossroads Cinema around the late 1980s when it was a sub-run theater…my late mom and I saw the two “Butch Cassidy” movies. Today, it serves as Schools Federal Credit Union branch. My sister-in-law used to work there! Coincidence…
A brief detailed history of this drive-in…it opened in 1949 as Sacramento’s first drive-in theater. At the time it opened, it was a single screen. Much later in the 1960s a second screen was added, called a “South Screen” (the original screen was labeled “North Screen”). A third screen was added in 1973 where a playground had been.
At its heyday, the North Screen had three sub-run hits for about $3.50 a car load. For a brief period in the 1970s, it ran Spanish movies. Some nights you’d get a short subject followed by two color cartoons (usually either a Disney or Terrytoons short). For intermission, you’d get those dancing hot dogs, or maybe you would have seen ads for “Federico College of Hair Styling”. Towards the end of its life, you’d see B- or Triple-Z fare (while no one remembers a movie called “The Rape Killer”, almost everyone, including myself, remembers “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”), but it did run some blockbusters (one time, they had “Star Wars” and “Close Encounters” on the same bill.
The drive in closed down in 1988, with demolishing coming soon after. Having been born and raised in Sacramento and visiting the Sky View many times growing up as a child, I remember vividly all those visits. I can still picture in my mind the snack bar. Anyway, if anyone else has vivid memories of this drive in, you’re welcome to comment. Rest in peace, Skyview Drive In.
The picture shows that the Manor did operate through most of the 1970s and maybe the beginning of the ‘80s. It was a porno house (XXX). Sad, isn’t it?
I did visit the Crossroads Cinema around the late 1980s when it was a sub-run theater…my late mom and I saw the two “Butch Cassidy” movies. Today, it serves as Schools Federal Credit Union branch. My sister-in-law used to work there! Coincidence…
A brief detailed history of this drive-in…it opened in 1949 as Sacramento’s first drive-in theater. At the time it opened, it was a single screen. Much later in the 1960s a second screen was added, called a “South Screen” (the original screen was labeled “North Screen”). A third screen was added in 1973 where a playground had been.
At its heyday, the North Screen had three sub-run hits for about $3.50 a car load. For a brief period in the 1970s, it ran Spanish movies. Some nights you’d get a short subject followed by two color cartoons (usually either a Disney or Terrytoons short). For intermission, you’d get those dancing hot dogs, or maybe you would have seen ads for “Federico College of Hair Styling”. Towards the end of its life, you’d see B- or Triple-Z fare (while no one remembers a movie called “The Rape Killer”, almost everyone, including myself, remembers “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes”), but it did run some blockbusters (one time, they had “Star Wars” and “Close Encounters” on the same bill.
The drive in closed down in 1988, with demolishing coming soon after. Having been born and raised in Sacramento and visiting the Sky View many times growing up as a child, I remember vividly all those visits. I can still picture in my mind the snack bar. Anyway, if anyone else has vivid memories of this drive in, you’re welcome to comment. Rest in peace, Skyview Drive In.