{"id":267,"date":"2009-07-31T10:44:42","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T10:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2009-07-31T10:44:42","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T10:44:42","slug":"costa-mesas-paulo-drive-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/07\/31\/costa-mesas-paulo-drive-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Costa Mesa&#8217;s Paulo Drive-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This month marks the\u00a0sixtieth anniversary of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/paulo-drive-in\/#more-96\" target=\"_blank\">Costa Mesa&#8217;s\u00a0Paulo Drive-In<\/a>. Opened on July, 8, 1949, with the features &#8220;Streets of Laredo&#8221; and &#8220;Across\u00a0the River&#8221;, the venue was Orange County&#8217;s third drive-in. Originally an independent, the\u00a0drive-in was picked up by Pacific Theatres\u00a0in the Fall of 1952. The Paulo lasted until February of 1976, when the site was demolished for\u00a0an apartment complex and 55 freeway construction. Mirroring the decline of the drive-in theatre format, the\u00a0venue closed out it&#8217;s run with a &#8220;B&#8221; film double bill of &#8220;Flesh Gordon&#8221; and &#8220;The Cheerleaders&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/paulodi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-268\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"The Paulo Drive In\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/paulodi-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/paulodi-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/paulodi-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/paulodi.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month marks the\u00a0sixtieth anniversary of\u00a0Costa Mesa&#8217;s\u00a0Paulo Drive-In. Opened on July, 8, 1949, with the features &#8220;Streets of Laredo&#8221; and &#8220;Across\u00a0the River&#8221;, the venue was Orange County&#8217;s third drive-in. Originally an independent, the\u00a0drive-in was picked up by Pacific Theatres\u00a0in the Fall of 1952. The Paulo lasted until February of 1976, when the site was demolished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}