It's Hollingshead Day: Visit Your Local Drive-In
Today marks the 75th anniversary of the opening of the very first drive-in cinema in Camden, NJ, created by Richard Hollingshead, Jr.
To mark the occasion, Wired has a photo gallery of drive-in images. NPR has a story about dead drive-ins coming back to life. The Niagara Gazette covers the Western New York Drive-In Movie Society, which aims to support the nine theaters that survive in that part of the world.
I'm planning to hit the Mendon Drive-In this weekend.
Here's the great site Drive-Ins.com, which has a comprehensive database of open (and closed) drive-ins...
To mark the occasion, Wired has a photo gallery of drive-in images. NPR has a story about dead drive-ins coming back to life. The Niagara Gazette covers the Western New York Drive-In Movie Society, which aims to support the nine theaters that survive in that part of the world.
I'm planning to hit the Mendon Drive-In this weekend.
Here's the great site Drive-Ins.com, which has a comprehensive database of open (and closed) drive-ins...
Labels: Drive-ins, Mendon Drive-In, movie history, Richard Hollingshead Jr.
posted by Scott Kirsner at
3:00 PM
1 Comments:
I gather that oil prices will have some serious damage on this comeback. I do think drive-ins are great though.
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