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Demolished theatres in the United Kingdom (1 C, 7 P) Demolished theatres in the United States (6 C, 24 P) Pages in category "Demolished theatres"
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 ...
Demolished theatres in California (1 C, 10 P) D. Demolished theatres in Illinois (15 P) N. Demolished theatres in New York (state) (1 C, 5 P) O. Demolished theatres ...
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Bengies Drive-In Theatre in Middle River, Maryland. The first drive-in was opened in 1933 in New Jersey. [1] As of 2017, around 330 drive-in theaters were operating in the United States, down from a peak of around 4,000 in the late 1950s. [2] At least six are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Notable U.S. examples include:
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.