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List of drive-in theatres in the United States Name City State Founded Defunct Remarks Reference 66 Drive-In: Carthage on U.S. Route 66: Missouri: 1949 [3] [4] 88 Drive-In: Commerce City: Colorado: 1971 [5] 56 Auto Drive-In Theater: Massena: New York: 1955: Bengies Drive-In Theatre: Middle River: Maryland: 1956 [6] Beverly Drive-In Theatre ...
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Urban renewal became popular, and residents believed that old-looking buildings were causing a loss of business downtown, and so many buildings were demolished and replaced with parking lots. Beginning around 1999, demolitions began to be more discouraged, and city planners began to accept new urbanism and residential development in Downtown ...
Fox Theatre in Oakland Fox Theatre in Redwood City, California. Fox Theatres was a large chain of movie theaters in the United States dating from the 1920s either built by Fox Film studio owner William Fox, or subsequently merged in 1929 by Fox with the West Coast Theatres chain, to form the Fox West Coast Theatres chain. [2]
The April 15, 1934, opening of Shankweiler's Auto Park in Orefield, Pennsylvania, was followed by Galveston's Drive-In Short Reel Theater (July 5, 1934), the Pico Drive-In Theater at Pico and Westwood boulevards in Los Angeles [16] (September 9, 1934) and the Weymouth Drive-In Theatre in Weymouth, Massachusetts (May 6, 1936). In 1937, three ...
The theater was completed in 1978, replacing the Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, which had been demolished in 1975. [1] The theater accommodates a wide variety of events including local performances, church services, dance competitions, beauty pageants, Broadway touring productions, industrial conventions, symphony performances, and operas.
The General Cinema Corporation was founded as a drive-in theater in 1935 by Philip Smith, who had previously owned a small chain of silent film theaters.Smith had chosen to open the chain after noticing the increasing sales of local Massachusetts theatres, and the introduction of films that were able to accommodate a synchronized sound and voice track into their reels.
The first Century theater was the Century 21 in San Jose, California, which opened November 24, 1964, adjacent to the Winchester Mystery House. [1] The Century 21 theater was built to showcase Cinerama type movies (the left and right empty projection booths are still present), but in fact, it showed only 70mm movies.