Pine Breeze Drive-In
7224 Skyway Road,
Paradise,
CA
95969
7224 Skyway Road,
Paradise,
CA
95969
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Previously operated by: Golden State Theater & Realty Corp., T & D Jr. Enterprises Inc., United California Theatres Inc.
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The Pine Breeze Drive-In was part of the Naify family’s T&D Jr. circuit in the 1950’s and 1960’s. It opened on August 25, 1950 with Yvonne De Carlo in “Buccaneer’s Girl” & Roy Rogers in “Trigger, Jr.”. The small drive-in operated in the summer months and the Naify’s El Rey Theatre operated during the winter. After closing in 1962, the Pine Breeze Drive-In became the site of a swap meet for a number of years, and was then demolished in the early-1980’s.
The site was occupied by a branch of the Beyond Fitness health club which was possibly destroyed by a wildfire on November 8, 2018 which all but destroyed the entire town.
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The drive-in appears in a 1951 aerial photo, indicating it was built at least by that year. It also appears intact in a 1969 aerial photo.
A 1993 aerial photo shows the drive-in to be totally demolished and empty, save for hints of the ramps.
The Pine Breeze appeared in the 1951 Film Daily Year Book and the 1950-51 Theatre Catalog, which listed its capacity as 363 cars. In 1953, it was run by United-California, aka Golden State Theatres.
Based on spot checks of the Paradise Post, the Pine Breeze’s final season might have been 1962. The town’s theaters were plagued by vandalism, and I didn’t see any later drive-in ads. Although the site looked intact in aerial photos, a letter to the editor in February 1970 said, “As the former Pine Breeze outdoor theatre now stands it is slowly rusting and disintegrating.”