Sacramento’s West Wind drive-in movie theater reopens after fire, but with a twist
West Wind 6, the Sacramento area’s drive-in movie theater complex, reopened over the weekend after a fire caused serious damage the previous weekend.
A fire ignited at the theater’s roundhouse the morning of Jan. 23, rendering the kitchen and concessions area a “total loss,” a Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District spokesman said at the time.
The fire spared West Wind’s projection room and the expensive equipment inside of it, so the six-screen theater near Rancho Cordova was able to reopen five days later on Friday evening, with limited concessions and a half-dozen food trucks on-site.
“Yes, we are re-open!” West Wind 6 wrote in a Facebook post Saturday morning. “We have restrooms available with running water, great food truck options and have candies, Takis and bottled beverages. Unfortunately, no popcorn right now but we’re hoping to have popcorn really soon.”
Food truck options rotate nightly.
Another loss in the fire was a collection of arcade games in the theater’s concession area. A GoFundMe page set up on behalf of a Folsom-based company called Arcade Experts, which owned the games, had raised more than $8,000 as of Monday morning.
