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This week marks the 70th anniversary of Orange County’s first drive-in, the aptly branded Orange Drive-In. Opened on June 18, 1941, the Orange enjoyed a fifty-three year run as a cinema, was the launching pad for Robert Schuller’s ministry, and hosted a popular weekend swap meet for nearly thirty years. Today, the location is little […]

Today’s pictures capture the VIP ribbon cutting (for theatres it’s film) of two spring openings from the past.   May 1997 opening of the AMC Fullerton expansion to twenty screens. .   May 2003 opening of the Krikorian Buena Park Metroplex 18. .   The Fullerton VIP night was a standard AMC corporate affair; involving dry speeches […]