The Del Mar Drive-In was actually located in Solana Beach on Valley Avenue & Via de la Valle. I remember all the entertainment venues were in Solana. In addition to the Drive-In there was sit down movie theater, a bowling alley, a skating rink and golf. The Lomas Santa Fe golf courses are still here, all the others are long gone. We used to climb up the hill on off Highland where you could watch the movie on the Drive-In screen. Just no sound. The Drive-In opened around 1953 and closed in 1983.
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I have saved most of the negatives and slides from over 45 years of photography starting with my seventh grade photo class where I got hooked. I recently emptied out my storage unit and came across boxes and boxes of old black & white negatives. Most of the photos are what I call record shots and my hope is that someone will see themselves in these images and that will spark a memory from when we were all a little younger. The following image posts will be random in time and place but each image was a building block on my journey as a photographer, mostly learning from my mistakes.
Stephen Whalen
