{"id":608,"date":"2010-10-10T13:23:42","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T13:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2010-10-10T13:23:42","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T13:23:42","slug":"a-fleeting-return-of-the-drive-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2010\/10\/10\/a-fleeting-return-of-the-drive-in\/","title":{"rendered":"A Fleeting Return of The Drive-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Today&#8217;s photo captured a rare moment\u00a0in the <a href=\"http:\/\/occinema.com\/2007\/08\/30\/star-vu-drive-in\/#more-99\" target=\"_blank\">Star Vu Drive-In&#8217;s <\/a>history; a night when the ill-fated venture was actually open for business.<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/StarVuDriveIn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-609\" style=\"border: black 2px solid;\" title=\"Star Vu DriveIn\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/StarVuDriveIn-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/StarVuDriveIn-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/StarVuDriveIn-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/StarVuDriveIn.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Lasting only one summer,\u00a0Costa Mesa&#8217;s\u00a0Star Vu was a well intended attempt to bring the magic of drive-in movie going back to Orange County.\u00a0Utilizing an inflatable screen and temporary set up, the operation sought to circumvent the problematic\u00a0real estate\u00a0issues which had driven the viewing format from the county in previous decades. However, this modern spin on the ozoner\u00a0quickly fell victim to many of the same pitfalls\u00a0which had doomed it&#8217;s predecessors.\u00a0Between a summer of inclement weather and scheduling conflicts with various events at\u00a0the Orange County Fairgrounds site, the Star Vu never managed\u00a0to establish a consistent presence, nor steady revenue flow.\u00a0In October of 2007, after only a handful of sporadic screenings, the Star Vu&#8217;s equipment was removed and the venture was unceremoniously abandoned.\u00a0<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s photo captured a rare moment\u00a0in the Star Vu Drive-In&#8217;s history; a night when the ill-fated venture was actually open for business. . \u00a0 Lasting only one summer,\u00a0Costa Mesa&#8217;s\u00a0Star Vu was a well intended attempt to bring the magic of drive-in movie going back to Orange County.\u00a0Utilizing an inflatable screen and temporary set up, the [&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-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}