1950s Drive In Movie Theaters

There were over 4000 drive ins throughout the us.

The hunger games movie vs book. Some drive ins have small playgrounds for children and a few picnic tables or benches. And most were located in rural areas. And they loved their cars.

Film fare of the raleigh road and other drive ins typically consists. Drive ins gained immense popularity 20 years later during the 1950s and 60s with the baby boomer generation. 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.

The sound comes through car radios. They maintained popularity as both a space for families to. The days of the drive in movie theaters 1930 1950 actor charlton heston plays moses with arms flung wide in the motion picture the ten commandments shown at a drive in movie theater in 1958.

Here are photos of some of. Today the theatre can accommodate 265 cars and show movies in a 60 foot by 80 foot screen. Though drive ins have been on the decline since their heyday in the late 1950s and early 1960s there are still some cool retro drive in movie theaters operating today.

A drive in theater or drive in cinema is a form of cinema structure consisting of a large outdoor movie screen a projection booth a concession stand and a large parking area for automobileswithin this enclosed area customers can view movies from the privacy and comfort of their cars. In the 1950 post war years americans began to move to the suburbs and everyone owned an automobile.