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This week’s random photo is of the, generically named, “Drive-In”, that once sat on the corner of Pico and Westwood Blvd., in Los Angeles (now the site of the Westside Pavilion shopping center). Opened as L.A.’s first drive in, on September 9, 1934, the Drive-In claimed to possess the world’s largest screen (40′ X 50′). 

 

Of particular interest is the sound system, which featured three 7′ X 22′ speakers, that were mounted on top of the seventy-two foot high screen tower and angled downwards, towards the 450 car lot. Hard to imagine there was a time when such a sound system was plausible in urban Los Angeles.