The novelty of sitting in your car to watch movies arrived not too long after the novelty of hearing movies talk. The first drive-in theater in California was imaginatively called “The Drive-In Theater” and it opened September 9^th, 1934 at 10850 W. Pico Blvd. This photo was taken the following year, 1935. As others sprang up, it changed its name to the Pacific Drive-In and lasted until 1947.