Who remembers having a window tray sitting on your car door
at the drive-in growing up?
at the drive-in growing up?
Who remembers having a window tray sitting on your car door
at the drive-in growing up?
On June 6, 1933, eager motorists parked 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.
Park-In Theaters–the term “drive-in” came to be widely used
only later–was the brainchild of Richard Hollingshead, a movie
fan and a sales manager at his father’s company, Whiz Auto
Products, in Camden. Reportedly inspired by his mother’s
struggle to sit comfortably in traditional movie theater seats, Hollingshead came up with the idea of an open-air theater
where patrons watched movies in the comfort of their own
automobiles.
Richard Milton Hollingshead, Jr.
(February 25, 1899 – May 13, 1975)
Dea’s In & Out on 755 NE Burnside Rd. Gresham, Oregon.
Dea’s has been offering their “Longburger”, hot dogs, French fries,
shakes and sodas since a small beginning in 1953. The original
location was a drive-thru on Southeast Powell Boulevard across
the street from Mt. Hood Theater in Gresham, Oregon.
Dea’s In & Out continues to be a fine family-owned and operated
restaurant.
Fries with a special secret dipping sauce.
Evelyn and Dea (“Deacon.”) Sparks.
The 99W Drive-in movie theater (above) is a single screen outdoor movie
venue in Newberg, Oregon that has been in operation since it originally
opened back in the year 1953. Double features of first-run films are shown
at the drive-in on a season basis only during the weekends.
Throughout the years, more than fifty drive-in movie theaters have existed
in Oregon. Yet, today, only four are operating in the state and the 99W is
one of them.