The unique pleasures of the Drive-In movie theater experience are hard to come by these days. Prolific in the 1950s, usually out in the sticks where they nixed hick pix, their numbers have dwindled from more than 4,000 to less than 300, most of those barely hanging on. One such venue, the Mahoning Drive-In, located in Lehighton, in rural Pennsylvania, is the subject of Alexander Monelli’s excellent documentary At the Drive-In (2017).
Movies had been exhibited outdoors since the early silent days, but the first official drive-in theater is generally thought to have been one built by chemical company magnate Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr. in Pennsauken, New Jersey, in 1933. However, it wasn’t until after World War II that drive-in theater construction began in earnest, from roughly 1949-1959. Movie attendance was in sharp decline, and for that reason almost no new indoor theaters were built durin…Read the entire review
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