Forty-Niner 6 Drive-In
4450 Marysville Boulevard,
Sacramento,
CA
95838
4450 Marysville Boulevard,
Sacramento,
CA
95838
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Can somebody help me remember a drive in theater out by east greenback, but I’m not sure exactly where? It was a single screen drive in and I helped the owner keep it open when he needed help in the mid 1990s. I don’t see it listed anywhere. It was pretty run down. The marquee was kind of half lit. I cannot even remember the owner’s name. I always turned down the money he offered for help. I did what i could for him. I moved away in 2004.
davidcoppock I think they bulldozed all the buildings down in 2002
I think the site has been demolished and cleared(except maybe the ramps?)?
Also called Forty-niner 6 drive-in.
Reopened as 49er with “The mask” and ‘Wonders of Aladdin", reopened as as a twin on screen 1 with “The conqueror worm” and “The oblong box” and on screen 2 with “Rosemary’s baby” and “Goodbye, Columbus”.
4 screens in early 1975 and six opening on August 4th, 1975. No grand opening ads found.
This became the 49er Drive-In on December 24th, 1961 and reopened on August 19th, 1969 as a twin. Grand opening ads posted
Opened on 29/6/1950 with 2 colour cartoons(not named), “The eagle and the hawk” and “Lucky losers”.
This opened as the Bell Drive-In on June 29th, 1950. Grand opening ad posted. More to come.
to Tim Hale I remember you this is Sharon the 2nd oldest of the girls. I am married with 2 daughters and 3 grandsons. How has life treated you
I actually lived under the large main screen when I was in elementary school and most of the way through junior high, my father was the manager and we were there when they started to add all the screens. What a blast it was to have been a part of this, I even worked in the snack bar for a while in my teen years , my mother took over when my father passed and they Syufy people who owned this drive-in were very good people to us. Thank you for the memories
The original screen was wider at one time. Wind blew one end down and the decision was to just leave it as is. There was a building at the bottom of the main screen. It was the manager’s residence. I don’t know when it was torn down. Early 60’s or before. I can’t remember the transition from one to six screens. Three screens were added, two to the right of the main screen and one at the back of the snack bar. Two more screens were added next to the entrance along with a satellite projection booth. The theater needed upgrades and repairs but the income did not justify the expense. My office was in what used to be the manager’s residence in the new snack bar. After closing, and after repeated break-ins, the final straw was when scrappers removed the main power panel copper bars. Soon after, the building was razed. That must have been around 2002.
Here is the video
Century Circuit Inc and Century Theatres are two entirely different companies. Somebody may want to go through the links for both and make sure of that.
I remember growing up and always wanting to go to this drive in but we never went because the Sacramento 6 was a lot closer. That all changed in 1999 when I went to 49er Drive In for my first and only time to see the first “Scary Movie”. By the time I got my drivers licence it had already closed down. RIP 49er, I wish I could have got to know you better.
Uploaded 1964 also…
Goggle Aerial 1993
I was intrigued about the placement of six screens— so on the chance there might be something of a ghost image I put the address into Google Earth..The size of this place is incredible—scaled to the highway and the cars passing by. They must have spent a king’s ransom on paving—must have been a real solar collector gathering daytime heat and radiating it during the night’s shows. I wonder what size crew it took to run the place. The Google history shots run from ‘93 to 2011. Interesting how the technology progressed.
It looks like it was one screen in 1957:
http://tinyurl.com/yktaqft
i lived is saramento for about 4 years in the early 1990s and i remember coming to the 49er plenty of times me a my father used to always go to the small flea market they had on the weekends . i remember seeing a double feature here in 1992 it was american me and sleepwalkers the last time i saw a movie here was like in 1994 it was the last action hero sad to here this place is now closed because it was part of my early teen years …..
Architect, at least for the expansions of this location, was Vincent Raney.
While stationed at Mather AFB in 1968 I went there to see Elke Sommer in “Daniella by Night” which nad been heavily touted in PLAYBOY magazine a year or so previously. They must have had he cut version—it certainly didn’t do anything for me.
As of September 2005, the 49er marquee is still there, but has now deteriorated further than what is seen in the link above.