Few vanishing American venues can evoke as many nostalgic memories as drive-in movie theaters. Before malls and video arcades, drive-ins were the place for carloads of American teenagers, the place for young families needing a break from the house on a summer night, and the place for hot rodders to revel in and admire the hottest cars.
Once common across the country but now numbering fewer than 1,000, American drive-in movie theaters are remembered in loving detail in this new book. Loaded with archival black and white, 150 color photographs and wonderful memorabilia, this book covers the architecture of drive-in theaters, the automobiles that filled their lots, and highlights the spectacular advertising and promotional events that attracted families.
Most of all, it is full of memories of the unique automobile culture that made the American drive-in movie theater such a memorable place for so many people.
