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This third screen will also offer fire pit sites for watching the movies around the fire with friends and family.
#FOOD NEAR VAN BUREN DRIVE IN FULL#
We are one of a very few drive-ins able to offer this feature! Our third screen will show first run feature movies and is located in our full service campground consisting of 20 large RV parking spots with full hook ups. Our second screen will contain an LED Video Wall system that allows us to run 2nd run movies during the day. Our future looks bright! As we close to the public for the winter season, we will continue to build our second and third screens. This third screen will also offer fire pit sites for watching the movies around the fire with friends and family…what fun! The YMCA-operated facility embraces a Housing First. We are one of a very few drive-ins able to offer this feature! Our third screen will show first run feature movies and is located in our full service campground consisting of 20 large RV parking spots with full hook ups. The Van Buren Emergency Shelter plays a critical role in ending homelessness in Franklin County.
#FOOD NEAR VAN BUREN DRIVE IN CODE#
We are in the process of bringing them up to current building code for years of enjoyment! We are remodeling the original 1948 Concession Stand and Ticket Booth that are still standing although in very rough shape. Opening our doors as the Van Buren Drive-in & Activities Center on October 1, 2021, we currently have 1 screen built in the original location of the 1948 screen. Later in 2011 after years of neglect and vandalism, the original 1948 screen blew down in a tornado that ripped through Van Buren. As drive-in attendance declined, the owners allowed the last few rows to be reclaimed by the surrounding woods such that when the doors were closed in 1991, only 9 of 12 car rings remained usable. Originally, with parking for 850 cars spread across almost 15 acres of parking area, she was one of the biggest of her time. She was born in 1948 and opened her doors in 1949. At the time there was very little left of the old girl and she was in very rough shape. Learn more including showtimes, policies, and information on their daytime swap meet on their website.Our dream became reality in the fall of 2020 when we were able to purchase the abandoned Van Buren Drive-In.
#FOOD NEAR VAN BUREN DRIVE IN MOVIE#
See a movie under the stars at the Van Buren Drive-In at 2035 Van Buren Boulevard in Riverside. I visited the Van Buren back in 2004 during a road trip to California, and was able to step inside briefly to take some photos, so if you want a look at what it looked like prior to the 2007 revamp, you can see them here, among other photos taken by 16 year old me. The interior features enlarged citrus crate labels and historic photographs of not just the Van Buren, but other drive-ins and cinemas of the area. A massive mural was painted on the original screen, which has sadly faded and has not been repainted since it looks like, and the snack bar was revamped both inside and out. In 2007 the drive-in underwent a remodel and drew inspiration from that history. So it only makes sense that the land the Van Buren sits on was once an orange grove. Riverside is rich in citrus history, in fact it is home to one of the two first Navel orange trees to arrive in California and the amazing Citrus State Historic Park. While I haven’t seen it in action, I love the bit on the side of the marquee noting if any of the screens are full.
Just a little over ten years later, in 1975, it added two more screens.
Named after the street it is located on, the Van Buren Drive-In opened in 1964 with a single screen. Thankfully we live near a few others, and recently Patrick and I went to the Van Buren Drive-in in Riverside to see Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Earlier this year the sun set on Mission Tiki Drive-In, which had become our regular drive-in since moving to California.
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