Tri-City Drive-In (Demolished)
Redlands, CA
Photo by RoadsidePeek.com

The Tri-City Drive-in Theatre near Loma Linda is another of the great screens with fantastic murals. The image of the skier depicts the area which is near the mountains. A Roadside Peek contributor claims that the skier riding down the ski slope is actually a depiction of him. Fact or fiction? You know the drill.

Unfortunately the Tri-City drive-in has been demolished.

(Far left) The screen tower at the Tri-City Drive-in with the downhill skier

(Near left) A shot of the marquee as it used to stand in Redlands, CA

For more information, see Roadside Peek's Lost Treasures tribute to the Tri-City Drive-in Theatre.

Bel Air Drive-In (Demolished)
Fontana
Photo by RoadsidePeek.com

Although the Bel Air Drive-in site now looks more like an abandoned junk yard lot than an old drive-in, signs of its heyday still remain. The best way to enter the lot is by "backing-in" though.

UPDATE 08/06 : The Bel Air Drive-in and Bel Air Fontana Swap Meets are on the sites of the Thorp family Plymouth dealerships. My late parents bought a couple of cars from them. The dealerships folded about 1970 & the buildings were used for selling Blue Haven Pools, but the drive-in in Rialto continued. Starting about 1960, most businesses on Foothill Boulevard began suffering greatly when Hwy-66 traffic moved to the newly opened US-10 freeway. Many thanks to John Bennett of Colton for update. 08-06

The razed over empty lot
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Rubidoux 2000 version
Photos (2000) courtesy Ralph Ishmael

The Rubidoux Cinema 3 in Riverside sports a very colorful pain scheme. Another drive-in complex that fills to the rim with swap meet guests on just about every occasion. Oh yes, movies still play here.
Recent photos to the left show a different color scheme from the photos below taken in 1998.

New photos courtesy Ralph Ishmael.