{"id":308,"date":"2009-08-19T12:17:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T12:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=308"},"modified":"2009-08-19T12:22:23","modified_gmt":"2009-08-19T12:22:23","slug":"las-drive-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2009\/08\/19\/las-drive-in\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A.&#8217;s Drive-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>This week&#8217;s random photo is of the, generically named, &#8220;Drive-In&#8221;, that once sat on the corner of Pico and Westwood Blvd., in Los Angeles\u00a0(now the site of the Westside Pavilion shopping center). Opened as L.A.&#8217;s first drive in, on September 9, 1934, the Drive-In claimed to possess\u00a0the\u00a0world&#8217;s largest screen (40&#8242; X 50&#8242;).\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\/08\/drivein1943.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-307\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"The Drive-In's features\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/drivein1943-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/drivein1943-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/drivein1943-150x140.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/drivein1943.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Of particular\u00a0interest is the sound system, which featured three 7&#8242; X 22&#8242;\u00a0speakers, that were mounted on top of the seventy-two foot high screen tower and angled downwards, towards the 450 car lot.\u00a0Hard to imagine there was a time when such a sound system was plausible in urban Los Angeles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s random photo is of the, generically named, &#8220;Drive-In&#8221;, that once sat on the corner of Pico and Westwood Blvd., in Los Angeles\u00a0(now the site of the Westside Pavilion shopping center). Opened as L.A.&#8217;s first drive in, on September 9, 1934, the Drive-In claimed to possess\u00a0the\u00a0world&#8217;s largest screen (40&#8242; X 50&#8242;).\u00a0 . \u00a0 Of [&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-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","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=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}