Vue Dale Drive-In
1546 S. Wenatchee Avenue,
Wenatchee,
WA
98801
1546 S. Wenatchee Avenue,
Wenatchee,
WA
98801
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Now Vuedale Storage. Please update.
The Vue Dale Drive-In grand opening advertisement was found, but I cannot read the newspaper date because on how freaking blurry the picture is, so its opening date was partially found but was lost still. The theater opened as a single-screener with “I’ll See You In My Dreams” and “The Rose Bowl Story” with no extra short subjects, and was twinned sometime in the 1970s.
600 cars.
as of 2018 everythings still intact
There were two drive-in theaters in the Wenatchee area when I was a kid, both owned and operated by the people that ran the Vitaphone theater. The “Auto Vue” drive-in (built first) was at the North end of Wenatchee in the Sunnyslope area. The Vue Dale was in the South end near the Malaga area. As a kid, I only remember the Vue Dale having one screen (at that time).
From a Geocities archive, three photos of the Vue Dale, circa 1999: http://www.reocities.com/Hollywood/Pavillion/2216/VueDale.html
1956 Motion Picture Almanac calls it the AUTO VUE DRIVE-IN.
The Vue Dale closed for good on October 3, 2010. The property will be sold for redevelopment: View link
According to this article, 2010 will most likely be the last year for this nearly sixty-year-old theater. Its owner, Sun Basin Theatres, is signaling that it plans to close it, along with another theater in East Wenatchee, and open a new megaplex in a converted former Kmart by May of 2011: View link
Operated by Greime and Fasken Theaters in the early sixties.