99 Drive-In Theater, Bakersfield, CA 93308 - Image Galery

Matchbook cover

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Added: 2/21/2006

Matchbook Cover

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Added: 4/8/2008

I took the photo just before it was torn down in 1982

Credit: William Lewis

Added: 8/27/2012

coming attractions program sheet

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Added: 8/30/2012

box office

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Added: 9/8/2012

snack bar 1 of 2

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Added: 9/10/2012

inside of snack bar

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Added: 9/20/2012

projectors at the 99

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Added: 10/4/2012

drive way and box offices

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Added: 11/2/2012

Taken about 1950

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Added: 12/5/2012

Inside shot

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Added: 12/6/2012

Another shot of the box offices

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Snack bar

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Back side of box offices

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Added: 12/6/2012

This shot shows how big this place really was, it held 1500 cars and had 2 snack bars

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Added: 12/6/2012

You can see both snack bars here. The Back snack bar as it was called, is at the right of the photo.

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The Back snack bar was turned into storage in later years when business dropped off and it was no longer needed.

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For more photos like this, go to httpcinematreasures.orgtheatersunited-statescaliforniabakersfield

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Exit side

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Front of snack bar and projection booth

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Behind the bar inside the snack bar.

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My dad, Jeff Lewis, was co-owner of the 99, Terrace and So. Chester drive in theaters.

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Added: 12/6/2012

View of drive way towards box office. I posted a lot of videos on YOUTUBE of the three theaters. My favorite is Farewell to the So. Chester. httpswww.youtube.comwatchvqjmTWxwC8ps

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Added: 7/18/2015

To see videos of the 3 theaters, type in the search box at YOUTUBE either 99 drive in theater, Terrace drive in theater or So. Chester drive in theater in Bakersfield, ca.

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Added: 7/18/2015

You can see how rundown the place had gotten in its last days.

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Shot looking into the theater from the exit drive way

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Added: 7/18/2015

Was the playground area under the screen.

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Those box offices could handle 4 lines of cars all at once In the heydays of the theater, 4 lanes of cars would back all the way up and out into the street

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Added: 7/18/2015

Another shot behind the bar. People tell me that some of those movie posters are worth money. I can remember seeing my dad wad up the old ones and throwing them in the trash can every time he put up new ones

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Added: 7/18/2015

Dont you wish you could read those menu prices

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Added: 7/19/2015

Ive still got that clock and it keeps perfect time

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Added: 7/19/2015

Fresh hot popcorn-- oh,BS. My uncle Don would pop up a giant batch once or twice a week and store it in huge barrels and then pour it into the pop corn machine as needed.

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Added: 7/19/2015

Kitchen area.

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Another shot of the kitchen area.

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Ive still got that little stool and use it around the house. Check out the calendar.

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Added: 7/19/2015

No body wanted these projectors, so the bulldozer got them. The projectors out of the Terrace and So. Chester were wanted and saved. I have no idea were they are at now.

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Added: 7/19/2015

Speaker repairing area. I had an area at home were I could repair them too.

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Added: 7/19/2015

Sound system. I still have that panel with all the switches on it.

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Added: 7/19/2015

Another shot of the projectors.

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Office room in the snack bar. Boy Is this picture dated Look at that telephone answering machine and adding machine. No computers here

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Added: 7/19/2015

Office room in the snack bar. Boy Is this picture dated Look at that telephone answering machine and adding machine. No computers here.

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Added: 7/19/2015

Looking at the back snack bar from the front snack bar.

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Added: 7/20/2015

When business started to fall off in later years, my dad turned the back snack bar into storage.

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Added: 7/20/2015

In side the back snack bar turned storage area.

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Just before show time on a summer evening.

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Summer evening summer 1982. This would be the 99s last summer.

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Kicking back on a summer evening. This is what drive in theaters WERE all about

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Drive in theaters have gone the way of player pianos and buggy whips

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The wrecking crew arrives

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Demolition has started. Speaker stands were the first to go.

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Added: 7/21/2015

You know what thats for

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Added: 7/21/2015

Nobody will ever use these parking spaces again

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Added: 7/21/2015

Finishing off the back snack bar. Ive posted videos on YOUTUBE, search for 99 DRIVE IN THEATER IN BAKERSFIELD, CA.

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Added: 7/21/2015

Cleaning up the mess.

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Front snack bar gets it

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Added: 7/21/2015

Want some fresh air Dons open a window, tear down a wall

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Added: 7/21/2015

No more front snack bar or projection room.

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Added: 7/21/2015

They sure are wrecking the joint

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Added: 7/21/2015

More cleaning up messes.

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Added: 7/21/2015

This was big news, the 99 was a major local land mark.

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Added: 7/21/2015

The box offices are destroyed

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Added: 7/21/2015

The screen will be the last thing to go.

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Added: 7/22/2015

The tall blue fence on the exit side (left) was all that was left standing. The new land owners wanted to keep it. It stood for a couple more years and then was also torn down.

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Added: 7/22/2015

The house in the background was saved and moved.

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Added: 7/22/2015

Tearing out the managers apt. from under the screen

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Added: 7/22/2015

This screen was build to last, look at all the steel.

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Added: 7/22/2015

CLOSED it says. NO KIDDING

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Added: 7/22/2015

Cutting the poor things legs

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Added: 7/22/2015

To see videos of this, go to YOUTUBE and type in THE 99 COMES DOWN

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Added: 7/22/2015

Its bending in the middle

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It took 3 bulldozers pushing on it to bring it down.

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Added: 7/22/2015

This screen really put up a fight The screen at the So. Chester was just wood, and came down easily.

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Added: 7/22/2015

Coming down

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Almost down.

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On the ground

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Time sheet used in the box office

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Added: 7/22/2015

Passes used at our theaters

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Added: 7/22/2015

My dad, Jeff Lewis (at far left) and some of his partners

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Added: 7/22/2015

The front snack bar in the early days.

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Added: 7/22/2015