I lived originally at 40 Anelda Drive and the PH Motor Movies was directly behind our backyard. As kids, we’d sneak into the movies and turn on the speakers out near the fences really loud then sit on our roofs in sleeping bags on lawn recliners and have great outdoor movie experiences. The Motor Movies also had a playground below the screen and a little train that would go around a track that took it out through the wall around the backside of the screen, basically parallel to Contra Costa Highway (what it used to be called before I-680 was built) and back through the other side. When we got older and could drive, it was always the challenge to see how many kids you could sneak into the drive-in theater in your trunk. What was so funny about that was that it only cost a “buck a car load” ($1)!
I lived originally at 40 Anelda Drive and the PH Motor Movies was directly behind our backyard. As kids, we’d sneak into the movies and turn on the speakers out near the fences really loud then sit on our roofs in sleeping bags on lawn recliners and have great outdoor movie experiences. The Motor Movies also had a playground below the screen and a little train that would go around a track that took it out through the wall around the backside of the screen, basically parallel to Contra Costa Highway (what it used to be called before I-680 was built) and back through the other side. When we got older and could drive, it was always the challenge to see how many kids you could sneak into the drive-in theater in your trunk. What was so funny about that was that it only cost a “buck a car load” ($1)!