{"id":468,"date":"2010-04-30T10:38:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=468"},"modified":"2010-04-30T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T10:38:13","slug":"40-years-ago-the-buena-park-drive-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2010\/04\/30\/40-years-ago-the-buena-park-drive-in-2\/","title":{"rendered":"40 Years Ago: The Buena Park Drive-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past week marked the fortieth anniversary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/buena-park-drive-in\/#more-74\" target=\"_blank\">Buena Park Drive-In<\/a>. Opened by Pacific Theatres, on April 24, 1970, the Buena Park was located adjacent to the smaller and older <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/cina-car-drive-in\/#more-102\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Drive-In <\/a>(formerly known as the Cina-Car Drive-In), but the two drive-ins were operated separately until the mid 80&#8217;s. Around 1985, the Lincoln was formally merged with the Buena Park and the site became a three screen, with 1,234 spaces.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BuenaParkDriveIn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-464 aligncenter\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Buena Park Drive-In Opening Ad\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BuenaParkDriveIn-300x114.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"114\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BuenaParkDriveIn-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BuenaParkDriveIn-150x57.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BuenaParkDriveIn.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As with most ozoners, rising property values and declining attendance eventually resulted in the drive-In&#8217;s land being worth more than the business. After closing in the summer of 1993, the site was quickly leveled and sold for redevelopment. Today, the former drive-in is a middle class neighborhood, located down the street from Cypress college, on Lincoln Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past week marked the fortieth anniversary of the Buena Park Drive-In. Opened by Pacific Theatres, on April 24, 1970, the Buena Park was located adjacent to the smaller and older Lincoln Drive-In (formerly known as the Cina-Car Drive-In), but the two drive-ins were operated separately until the mid 80&#8217;s. Around 1985, the Lincoln was [&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-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}