AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |
Back to Blog
Drive in theatre12/18/2023 ![]() ![]() On Jin Camden, New Jersey, people paid 25 cents per car, plus 25 additional cents per person, to see the British comedy Wives Beware, starring Adolphe Menjou and Margaret Bannerman. ![]() He patented his concept in May 1933 and opened the gates to his theater the next month." "Hollingshead experimented for a few years before he created a ramp system for cars to park at different heights so everyone could see the screen. 'So he stuck her in a car and put a 1928 projector on the hood of the car, and tied two sheets to trees in his yard.' 'His mother was-how shall I say it?-rather large for indoor theater seats,' said Jim Kopp of the United Drive-in Theatre Owners Association. "He first conceived the drive-in as the answer to a problem. Here's an excerpt from Reid's article detailing how Hollinghead's idea evolved from a pair of sheets nailed between two trees to the American icon the drive-in theater is today: His key invention was a ramp designed for each parking space that allowed every viewer to see the screen (as shown in this diagram from an August 1933 edition of Popular Science). Reid, in the article, Hollingshead, a sales manager in his father's auto parts company, focused the idea around the automobile. While the idea of watching movies outside wasn't entirely new, explains Robin T. Four years ago, celebrated the 75th birthday of the distinctly American innovation with a story about the history of drive-ins and the man who started it all, Richard Hollingshead. Today Google celebrates the opening of the first drive-in theater in 1933 with a doodle. ![]()
0 Comments
Read More
Leave a Reply. |