Structure Type: built works - commercial buildings - fast food restaurants
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: [unspecified]
1 story
The Frontier Drive-in, with its car hop service, had two locations c. 1955; this one at 250 West Colorado Boulevard, across US Highway 66 from the Santa Anita Race Track and one at 4731 East Live Oak Street (next to the Edwards Drive-In Theatre).
Like many drive-in restaurants in Southern CA during the 1940s-1950s, the Frontier had a faceted end to allow autos to park around it. Also to long car ports, like porte cocheres, projected from opposite walls of the building, sheltering car hops in inclement weather.
PCAD id: 19081