STADIUM 8 DRIVE-IN
Location:Katella, near Stadium. Santa Ana.
Year built:Opened May 27, 1970.
Operated by:Syufy/Century Theatres.
Vehicle Capacity:n/a
Notes:HUGE with 8 screens. Closed on September 12, 1996 and demolished shortly thereafter.
Originally built with 4 screens. Opening movies:1.)Butch Cassidy and The Sundance
Kid with Prime of Miss Jean Brodie; 2.)Love Bug with D'arby O'gill and the Little
People; 3.)M-A-S-H with Alice B. Toklas; and 4.) Easy Rider with Last Summer.
Converted to 8 screens in the 80's. Showed eight double bills on the night it
closed including Easy Rider, Saturday Night Fever, Cinema Paradiso and The Exorcist.
A 25-screen Century Theatres multiplex to open in November 1997.
Added 04/18/02. Aerial picture courtesy Greg Reynolds.
Typical Syufy/Century drive-ins layout with domed projection booth/snackbar in the middle of the lots.
