Belmont Automovie
300 Harbor Boulevard,
Belmont,
CA
94002
300 Harbor Boulevard,
Belmont,
CA
94002
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Previously operated by: United Artists Theater Circuit Inc.
Previous Names: Starlite Drive-In
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The Starlite Drive-In was located just off Ralston Avenue near the Bayshore Freeway. It opened September 19, 1947 and was operated by David Bolton’s Trans-California Theaters. It was renamed Belmont Automovie on April 3, 1964. It was closed in spring of 1974.
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The Starlite Drive-in was operated by United Artists Theatres. There was also a sister drive-in located in Palo Alto known as the Palo Alto Drive-in Theatre, which was located near Bayshore Freeway (101).
There are 2 pictures at http://www.cinematour.com/tour/us/28503.html
based off of those, the Drive-In was located at approximately 150 Harbor Boulevard, Belmont, CA 94002-4016. Chris’s New Harbor Bar‎ is at this address. The area, now filled with warehouses and storage units, is no longer recognizable as a former Drive-In.
I have this Drive-in 1956 parking 650 cars and was owned by STARLITE THEATRE COMPANY.
Well alright.
PLEASE UPDATE TO 150 Harbor Boulevard.
The correct address of this long gone drive in at the Cinematour link provided by Element1604 is 300 Harbor Blvd. It was near the intersection of Harbor and Industrial Rd.
This became the Belmont Automovie on April 3rd, 1964.
Same drive-in? Boxoffice, Aug. 23, 1947: “BURLINGAME, CALIF. – Robert L. Lippert added another house to his 36-theatre chain August 6 when he acquired the new Belmont Drive-In near this city. Lippert will take over operation immediately and plans a big opening August 25. The Belmont parks 700 cars.”
Better quality grand opening ad:
Starlite Drive-In opening 18 Sep 1947, Thu Redwood City Tribune (Redwood City, California) Newspapers.com
Buckle up, because I’ve got this drive-in’s name changes, all based on listings and ads in the Times of San Mateo.
At first it was consistent, “Starlite Drive-In” through March 1964. On April 1, 1964, the drive-in’s ad was for “Starlite Auto Movie” while the listings cited the “Belmont (Starlite) Automovie”.
On April 4, 1964, the first ad for “Belmont Automovie” appeared. It stayed that way until the summer of 1967, which is missing some editions. By August 1967, the listings had changed to “Starlight Automovie”.
From that point forward, the advertised name was usually Starlite, sometimes Starlight. Drive-In and Automovie appeared about equally often. The Redwood City Tribune of Nov. 27, 1970 referred to it as the “Starlite, a United Artist Automovie,” suggesting what drove the change away from drive-in.
Despite its midlife fling as the Belmont, this drive-in closed the same way it opened, as the Starlite. Whether you want to add an Automovie is up to you.