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Nov 13, 2009 · On June 6, 1933, eager motorists park their automobiles on the grounds of Camden Drive-In, the first-ever drive-in movie theater, located on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pennsauken, New Jersey.
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Hollingshead's vision was an open-air theater where moviegoers could watch the movie from their own cars. He experimented in his own driveway at 212 Thomas Avenue, Camden, New Jersey. The inventor mounted a 1928 Kodak projector on the hood of his car and projected onto a screen he had nailed to trees in his backyard, and he used a radio placed behi...
The first U.S. patent for a drive-in theater was #1,909,537, issued on May 16, 1933 to Hollingshead. He opened his first drive-in on Tuesday June 6, 1933 with an investment of $30,000. It was located on Crescent Boulevard in Camden, New Jersey and the price of admission was 25 cents for the car, plus 25 cents per person.
The first drive-in design didn't include the in-car speaker system that we know today. Hollingshead contacted a company by the name of RCA Victor to provide the sound system, called "directional sound." The three main speakers that provided sound were mounted next to the screen. The sound quality was not good for cars in the rear of the theater, or...
An interesting innovation on Hollingsworth’s patent was the combination a drive-in and fly-in theater in 1948. Edward Brown, Jr. opened the first theater for cars and small planes on June 3 in Asbury Park, New Jersey. Ed Brown's Drive-In and Fly-In had capacity for 500 cars and 25 airplanes. An airfield was placed next to the drive-in and planes wo...
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May 27, 2023 · Though there were drive-ins as early as the 1910s, the first patented drive-in was opened on June 6, 1933 by Richard Hollingshead in New Jersey. He created it as a solution for people unable to comfortably fit into smaller movie theater seats after creating a mini drive-in for his mother.
Jun 19, 2009 · The 20 drive-in theaters around the Chicago area during outdoor movies’ prime had shrunk to seven by 1987, according to Tribune archives. The Skylark stopped showing movies in the late 1980s ...
May 27, 2008 · On June 6, 2008 the flag flying over the U.S. Capitol commemorated the 75th birthday of a distinctive slice of Americana: the drive-in movie theater. It was on that day in 1933 that Richard...
Jul 6, 2012 · The first drive-in theater opened in New Jersey in 1933. Yet they didn’t become popular until after World War II, when people started buying cars. In 1946 there were perhaps 50 drive-ins in the...
Jun 6, 2012 · June 6, 2012. Today Google celebrates the opening of the first drive-in theater in 1933 with a doodle. Four years ago, Smithsonian.com celebrated the 75th birthday of the distinctly American...
