Island Auto Movie
2001 Bartlett Drive,
Alameda,
CA
94501
2001 Bartlett Drive,
Alameda,
CA
94501
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The actual address while the theatre was open was 791 Thau Way.
HistoricAerials shows the drive-in adjacent to Atlantic Avenue north of the wash. The closest address to the Island’s entrance would be 2001 Bartlett Drive.
Also opened with two colour cartoons(not named). The drive-in had a laundrette open not long atfer the drive-in opened(first drive-in i have heard of having a laundrette on site!!) Was there any drive-in’s with a laundrette?
June 29, 1950 Grand Opening Night
Alameda is an Island in the San Francisco Bay.
Interesting name.
Here is an October 1950 ad from the Oakland Tribune:
http://tinyurl.com/mnyajn
heres a link of 2 1983 pictures of the island auto drive in
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveglass/2955672065/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/daveglass/393028224/
i remember this drive inn like it was yesterday i used to go here to watch movies all the time in the mid and late 80s i remember the last time i came here i seen a double feature ghostbusters 2 and indiana jones and the last crusade i remember the area around the drive inn was very dusty and a few abandoned wharehouses and factorys around this area also across the street was a big railroad yard i used to go to the fleamarket here also back then . now everything is gone a apartment complex stands where the drive inn used to be the railroad yard has been gone since 1998 the area is all strip malls and offices it,s really hard to recognize this area today..
On 11/24/52, the Island was showing “The Thief” with Ray Milland and Rita Gam (?) along with “The Ring”, a boxing movie, as advertised in the Oakland Tribune. The phone number was LA-27205.
The Island Auto Movie opened June 29, 1950, within six weeks of the Alameda Auto Movie.
Syufy (now known as Century Theaters) was the operator of this drive-in for many years until its close.