June 18, 2009
The drive-in-movie theater celebrated its 75th anniversary last year.
As the story goes, Richard Hollingshead Jr. experimented with the
format in 1933 by showing movies in his driveway in Riverton, N.J. He
hung a bed sheet between two trees and placed a Kodak film projector on
the roof of his car.
Click wheels.blogs.nytimes.com for the whole story.
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