In the 1950s, there was almost 5,000 drive-in theaters throughout the US. Today, there are just over 300. ... One of her favorite shots was from her first stop, in Yerington, Nevada.

The first proper drive-in may have been a Comanche, ... By 1951, there were more than 4,000 drive-in theaters in the US, compared to fewer than 200 at the end of the war. 0:59.

In 1933, he opened the first drive-in called Park-In Theaters, Inc. Hollingshead charged only 25 cents per car and per person to view a movie under the stars. Drive-in in 1948.

The year’s National Drive-in Movie Day on June 6 marked the eighty-fifth anniversary of the drive-in movie theater. On June 6, 1933, Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr. opened the first drive-in ...

Drive-in theaters are becoming harder to find, but in Wisconsin it's easier than most. ... The first drive-in movie theater in the U.S. opened in Camden on the Pennsauken border in 1933.

The first movie shown was “Backstage.” Cars piled into the lot, paying 35 cents per person to take in the new spectacle. Because for a time, drive-in theaters were part of the peak of summer ...

Shankweiler's opened in 1934, modeled after the very first drive-in that lit up Camden, New Jersey the year before. There were over 4,000 drive-ins across the country in the 1950s. That number's ...

To compile a list of the best drive-in movie theaters in the U.S., 24/7 Tempo reviewed a ranking by Nationwide Vehicle Contracts, a British-based car and van leasing site.

Drive-in theaters became a fixture across the United States after World War II, peaking at more than 4,000 movie theaters in the 1950s. Hollingshead's theater was far more short-lived as it closed ...

A few years ago, it felt as though drive-in theaters were fading into oblivion, if they weren't there already. From the 1970s to the '90s, thousands closed, often due to rising land values that ...

Although there were nearly a dozen drive-in movie theaters in Phoenix, the Phoenix Drive-in Theatre at 36th Street and Van Buren was the first. Harry Nace, who also built the Orpheum Theatre ...