Los Angeles has traditionally prided itself in being ahead of entertainment trends that develop around the country. But the area has been a little bit behind in at least one: the reopening of drive…
, which has owned the venerable Vineland since 1955. “At best, it’ll be a soft opening, because there’s not going to be too much time to ramp up any big campaign. But there’s been such a great response for other drive-ins across the country that have remained open during the shutdown, while Los Angeles shut down their county drive-ins. In San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego counties, those drive-ins have flourished.
Both of the L.A. County drive-ins have had to sit idly while a drive-in just across the San Bernardino County line in Montclair, the four-screen, has been doing record business, pulling new customers from a good distance away on L.A.’s west side, in the San Fernando Valley and all over southern California. It was the one drive-in that never shut down, and for at least a month was the one location you could legally see a movie with an audience in the entire southern half of the state.
If the Vineland does reopen Tuesday, that’ll leave just two drive-ins left closed in the central or southern parts of the state. The Hi-Way Drive-In in Visalia tellsit has plans to reopen June 5. The Smiths Ranch Drive-In in Twenty-Nine Palms has no definite plans to be back in business, but will keep its customers posted, the venue said in a Facebook post Thursday.
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