Anything you can buy wholesale and sell at a huge discount is there. Whatever the vendors are selling, plenty of people are buying. On a typical sunny Saturday during the spring or summer, between 3,000 and 4,000 buyers come through the gates to visit 350 vendors. On a Sunday, it s between 8,000 and 9,000 buyers for over 500 vendors. Every vendor pays rent.
Every buyer pays an admission fee.
And every one of them helps subsidize the continued existence of the Redwood as a drive-in movie theater. A separate line forms for each of the Redwood s six double features, with a marquee announcing the FM frequency to tune in for that theater s audio. In one line, the passengers in a pair of cars get out to chat while they re waiting. In another line, bags of fast food are passed from one car to another. Patrons appear to be getting ready for something besides a movie.