I remember attending this drive-in shortly after it opened in Fresno’s “top drawer” Sunnyside neighborhood. I remember seeing “Cheyenne Autumn” and “How the West Was Won” there. It’s sad on visits to Fresno these days to see the former theaters now occupied by churches, behemoth malls, or, worse still, demolished.
When I was a child in 1950s' Fresno, the Wilson, along with the Crest and Tower Theaters was part of the Fox West Coast Theater chain. I literally watched hundreds of movies in this theater. It was Fresno’s theater for Universal, Paramount, and Disney movies. But I even remember seeing a studio preview screening of 20th Century-Fox’s “Say One For Me,” starring Robert Wagner, Bing Crosby, and Debbie Reynolds, at the Wilson. Saw all of the Dean and Jerry, and Francis The Talking Mule pictures there.
I remember attending this drive-in shortly after it opened in Fresno’s “top drawer” Sunnyside neighborhood. I remember seeing “Cheyenne Autumn” and “How the West Was Won” there. It’s sad on visits to Fresno these days to see the former theaters now occupied by churches, behemoth malls, or, worse still, demolished.
When I was a child in 1950s' Fresno, the Wilson, along with the Crest and Tower Theaters was part of the Fox West Coast Theater chain. I literally watched hundreds of movies in this theater. It was Fresno’s theater for Universal, Paramount, and Disney movies. But I even remember seeing a studio preview screening of 20th Century-Fox’s “Say One For Me,” starring Robert Wagner, Bing Crosby, and Debbie Reynolds, at the Wilson. Saw all of the Dean and Jerry, and Francis The Talking Mule pictures there.