Hilltop Drive-In
3150 Hilltop Drive,
Richmond,
CA
94806
3150 Hilltop Drive,
Richmond,
CA
94806
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The issue is that the property has changed dramatically since the drive-in was demolished. It no longer connects to Hilltop Drive, so none of the addresses that include Hilltop Drive seem to come close to finding the property today. Using Google Maps, the 3150 Hilltop Drive address is a good mile away to the west.
The screen sat where the Courtyard Richmond is, at 3150 Garrity Way, Richmond, CA.
Perhaps when Google Maps updates it addresses to include the circular building just to the west of Blume Drive (mere feet from where the old drive-in entrance once stood), that could be used.
The approximate address for this drive in was 3150 Hilltop Dr. Please update. The box 9ffice was located where Social Security is now located on Garrity.
Garrity Way is not the official address for Hilltop Drive-In. It was on Hilltop Drive at Hwy 40. And, the map at upper right doesn’t even come close. It’s pinpointing on Cutting Blvd. in the southern part of Richmond where the “Easter Hill” housing projects are. Try moving North about 4 miles up to Hilltop Drive where it’s between Robert Miller Drive and Shane Drive.
Opened with “Follow that dream”, “Sergeants 3” and “The music man”.
Maybe I seen Judgment At Neurenberg at the san Pablo and not the Hilltop, if the 1963 opening date is correct.
The Hilltop Drive-In opened on the 4th of July 1963 with a double feature of “Follow That Dream” and “Sergeants Three”. The original owner and operator was the Jeha Family who also ran the Park Theatre in El Sobrante. It was later acquired by the Syufy circuit who also ran the Rancho Drive-In in San Pablo.
I remember the Hilltop as being a cut above their neighbors the San Pablo and the Rancho, but it was brand new and shiny then. When did it open? Seen Judgment At Neurenberg there so that would place it as being open in 19961. It was a nice drive-in.
1968 aerial at View link
Why should they its all automated.
Yeah they dont have a Clue about the Cue marks!
The opposite would be seeing “JEREMIAH JOHNSON” on the big screen outside.All the snow in that movie showed every crack in the Drive-in screen,drove someone like me nuts. Heck, i can spot a wad of gum on an indoor screen that no one with ever notices,Guess it comes from 7 years in the business.TLSLOEWS.remember CUE marks.Rookies today, have no idea what CUE marks are.
Any photos anyone?
My family saw just about every Disney film that came up to the drive-in, back in the 60’s. My brother and a friend of ours were actually there the last day they were open and didnt even know they were closing. The double feature was Mortuary and “House On Soriorty Row"
Still miss that place
Here’s my snappy comeback a year-and-a-half later…
I can barely see the first 15-minutes of Star Trek 1 on my DVD player. The movie was pretty damned dark to begin with, I can’t imagine drive-ins doing it much justice anywhere.
We saw Star Trek 1 there. The projection was so dim you could not see the 1st 15 minutes of the movie. I never heard so many car horns honking at once!
George Senda
Concord Ca
Chevy’s, Courtyard by Marriott & Apt complex now stands where the drive-in was. The last double feature I remember watching was Clash of the Titans & The Gates of Hell
Closed in September 1984 and demolished in 1986.