{"id":37,"date":"2008-09-10T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2008-09-10T10:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2008-09-10T12:17:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-10T12:17:36","slug":"mission-drive-in-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2008\/09\/10\/mission-drive-in-closure\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission Drive-In Closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Today marks the\u00a0twenty third anniversary of\u00a0<a title=\"Mission Drive-In\" href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/mission-drive-in\/#more-169\" target=\"_blank\">San Juan Capistrano&#8217;s\u00a0Mission Drive-In\u00a0<\/a>closure. At one time, Orange County featured eleven drive-ins, but, by the late nineties,\u00a0all had fallen victim to the economics of skyrocketing property values and\u00a0a declining interest in the viewing format. The\u00a0Mission, which\u00a0was\u00a0the\u00a0eighth drive-in to open in Orange\u00a0County and the fourth to close, on September 8, 1985, exemplified\u00a0 this unfortunate late twentieth century\u00a0trend; after years of slumping attendance, the property became more valuable than the business, leading to\u00a0the drive-in&#8217;s\u00a0closure and conversion in to a retail center.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/missiondrivein-marque.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-38\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Mission Drive In Closing Marquee\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/missiondrivein-marque-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mission Drive In Closing Marquee\" width=\"180\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>The Mission Drive-In opened to a capacity audience,\u00a0in November of 1966, with the features &#8220;Paradise Hawaiian Style&#8221; and &#8220;Night of the Grizzly&#8221;. Nineteen years later, a sparse collection of vehicles closed out the\u00a0venue with &#8220;Return of the Living Dead&#8221; and &#8220;Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome&#8221;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the\u00a0twenty third anniversary of\u00a0San Juan Capistrano&#8217;s\u00a0Mission Drive-In\u00a0closure. At one time, Orange County featured eleven drive-ins, but, by the late nineties,\u00a0all had fallen victim to the economics of skyrocketing property values and\u00a0a declining interest in the viewing format. The\u00a0Mission, which\u00a0was\u00a0the\u00a0eighth drive-in to open in Orange\u00a0County and the fourth to close, on September 8, 1985, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","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=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}