99W Drive-in Theatre Newberg, Oregon
National Register of Historic Places Data
99W Drive-in Theatre has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form . Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 14000401
- Date Listed
- July 11, 2014
- Name
- 99W Drive-in Theatre
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 3110 Portland Rd.
- City/Town
- Newberg
- County
- Yamhill
- State
- Oregon
- Category
- site
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
The 99W Drive-In Theatre in Newberg, Oregon, which opened July 31, 1953, is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A, ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION, as a drive-in movie theater reflecting family entertainment trends in the post-World War II era. It also is eligible under Criterion C, ARCHITECTURE, as a rare, remaining, intact example of a drive-in theater. It is one of three remaining driveins in Oregon, and the only one extant in Yamhill County. This specific drive-in theater strongly represents the drive-in phenomenon from its rise to its decline, which occurred commensurate with the rise of home entertainment systems. It has been in continual operation from the time it opened, adapting to new entertainment trends over the years. As an important example of mid-century entertainment and car culture, the 99W Drive-In Theatre is a property that reflects the values of its time and continues to function as originally designed. It retains all the components of the property type, expressed in a Modern design with modest Googie-style elements, also a product of the times.
