Lakewood Drive-In
2120 E. Carson Street,
Long Beach,
CA
90807
2120 E. Carson Street,
Long Beach,
CA
90807
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Previously operated by: Pacific Theatres
Architects: William Glenn Balch, Louis L. Bryan
Firms: Balch & Bryan
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The Lakewood Drive-In was opened on August 26, 1948. If I can remember correctly, this drive-in was located on Carson Street on the border of Lakewood and Long Beach. It had a sail boat painted on the screen. It was closed on September 3, 1990 with Cheech Marin in “The Shrimp on the Barbie” & Jeff Daniels in “Arachnophobia”.
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The Lakewood Drive-in was located at Carson and Lakewood Blvd, across from Douglas Aircraft and just west from Cal-Bowl just beyond the railroad tracks, (tho I never in 35 years saw any train on the tracts). The Los Altos Drive-in was located on Bellflower Blvd where Worthington Ford now sits. The Circle Drive-in was located at the traffic circle in Long Beach, Ca. near where Java Lanes once stood on Pacific Coast Hwy.
This is where I fell in love with Horror movies. I went here when I was a child to see Friday the 13th with my parents and sister. It was great and it opened my mind to horror movies.
The Lakewood Drive In was at Carson and Cherry – the Lakewood walk-in was in the little shopping area at Carson and Lakewood.
This the correct address: 2120 E Carson St, Long Beach, CA 90807
Joe it was at Carson and Paramount. I went there several times, it is now a WALMART.
August 26th, 1948 grand opening ad in photo section.
Opened on 26/8/1948 with “latest news”, “colour cartoons(number and names not mentioned?), "The Green grass of Wyoming”, and Raw deal".
Site is now Long Beach Town Square.
The movies shown on the final night of operation…September 3, 1990…were “Shrimp On The Barbie” and “Arachnophobia”
Now Del Taco! Please update.