Auto-View Drive-In
1839 NW 27th Avenue,
Camas,
WA
98607
1839 NW 27th Avenue,
Camas,
WA
98607
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Boxoffice, May 9, 1953: “CAMAS, WASH. - Construction has begun here on the first drive-in theatre between Vancouver and Sunnyside. The 400-car situation will be known as the Auto-Vue. Owners of the project are George Stoller, cafe owner here, and Jack D. Braxton, manager of the United Artists Theatre in Portland. The airer, located on a 25-acre plot on Prune Hill, will be opened this summer.”
Boxoffice, June 27, 1953: “Jack Braxton and George Stoller expect early completion of their 500-space Autovue Drive-In near Camas, Wash.”
Correction…
Now Camas Ridge Apartments @ 1839 NW 27th Ave, Camas, WA 98607.
Please update.
The previous address given has always been a residential neighborhood even before the drive-in existed…Sorry Kenny! 😁😘
A more accurate address, at least in terms of the entrance road, is 1417 NW 28th Ave, Camas, WA.
Admittedly, NW Logan Street is not bad, but this address is where the entrance road connected to NW 28th Street.
The drive-in first appears on a 1955 aerial. It also appears intact and operational in 1960 and 1970. By 1981, the screen and projection booth/concession stand were gone.
Today, the entire area is residential properties with no trace of the drive-in remaining.
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