On the evening of June 6, 1933, motorists crowded into a parking lot on Crescent Boulevard in Camden, New Jersey for the first ever drive-in movie screening. And with that, the drive-in theater craze ...
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A south-central Indiana drive-in asked on Facebook this week: "Anyone want to buy a really big Starlite sign?" Bloomington's outdoor theater is replacing the old marquee, according to the Facebook ...
Before and after World War II, Americans were fascinated with the newfangled idea of watching movies from inside their cars. Alabama was home to more than 60 drive-ins during their heyday and during a ...
The sun may have set on the heyday of the drive-in movie theater, but two new DVD collections lovingly re-create the innocent--and not so innocent--pleasures of the late-night double-feature picture ...
There were two golden ages of drive-in theaters: the ’40s and ’50s, when suburban families watched dancing hot dogs extol the virtues of the concession stand; and the ’60s and ’70s, when teenagers ...
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SKOWHEGAN, Maine (WABI) - A piece of Maine history is on its way to a new home. The Skowhegan Drive-In Theatre closed last month after 70 years in business, but the sign will remain standing...2,000 ...
The Corral Drive-In sat at 1524 Kings Highway, right across from where Oschner-LSU Health Shreveport is now. Buster O'Steen owned this drive-in, as well as three others, and G.M. Sanders was the ...