{"id":917,"date":"2012-06-06T09:13:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T09:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/?p=917"},"modified":"2012-06-06T09:13:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T09:13:45","slug":"cinema-milestone-the-first-drive-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/2012\/06\/06\/cinema-milestone-the-first-drive-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema Milestone: The First Drive-In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1933, Richard Hollingshead (along with Willie Warren Smith, Edward Ellis, and Oliver Willets) opened the world\u2019s first drive-in theater, in Camden, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CamdenDriveInAd.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-918 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Camden DriveIn Ad\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CamdenDriveInAd-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CamdenDriveInAd-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CamdenDriveInAd-147x150.jpg 147w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CamdenDriveInAd.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Built for $30,000, the aptly named \u201cDrive-In Theatre\u201d, featured inclined slots for 400 cars and a \u201c60 foot talkie screen\u201d; unlike later drive-ins, sound was produced via large speakers installed on the screen tower (RCA\u2019s \u201cDirect Sound\u201d system for the Camden location). Priced at twenty five cents per car and twenty five cents per person, not exceeding one dollar per car load, the opening feature was \u201cWives Beware\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CamdenDriveInExterior.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-919 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid black;\" title=\"Camden DriveIn Exterior\" src=\"http:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CamdenDriveInExterior-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CamdenDriveInExterior-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CamdenDriveInExterior-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/CamdenDriveInExterior.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to several legal disputes, Camden\u2019s Dive-In Theatre was closed in 1935, but this first effort ultimately launched a movie going craze that became a cornerstone of mid twentieth century pop culture and iconic slice of Americana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1933, Richard Hollingshead (along with Willie Warren Smith, Edward Ellis, and Oliver Willets) opened the world\u2019s first drive-in theater, in Camden, New Jersey. Built for $30,000, the aptly named \u201cDrive-In Theatre\u201d, featured inclined slots for 400 cars and a \u201c60 foot talkie screen\u201d; unlike later drive-ins, sound was produced via large [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-theatre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":920,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinelog.org\/cinelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}