Drive-in movie theaters

June 6, 1933 motorists park their automobiles on the grounds of Richard Hollingshead Jr.'s Park-In Theater, the first ever drive-in movie theater, on Crescent Boulevard in Camden, New Jersey. The cost for a ticket: 25 cents per vehicle and 25 cents per person.

Mahnomen City Drive-In Movie Theater, U.S. Highway 59 at Minnesota Highway 200, Mahnomen, Mahnomen, MN.

Creator(s): Historic American Buildings Survey, creator. Medium: Photo(s): 1 (5 x 7 in.) Photo Caption Page(s): 1. Reproduction Number: [See Call Number] Call Number: HABS MINN,44-MAHN,1 Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Notes:
Survey number HABS MN-121

Subjects:
MINNESOTA--Mahnomen--Mahnomen

Collections:
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey

Part of: Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) Contents: Photograph caption(s) General view looking East

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Title: 66 Drive-In Theatre, Route 66, Carthage, Missouri. Creator(s): Highsmith, Carol M., 1946-, photographer. Date Created / Published: 2009 August 12. Medium: 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color. Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-highsm-04413 (original digital file) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. Carol M. Highsmith's photographs are in the public domain. Publication and other forms of distribution: Permitted. Ms. Highsmith has stipulated that her photographs are in the public domain. (See P&P Collection Files.)

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, photograph by Carol M. Highsmith [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USZ62-123456]

Call Number: LC-DIG-highsm- 04413 (ONLINE) [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print.

Notes:
66 Drive-In Theatre built in 1949, one of less than 400 Drive-In theatres in the United States today.
Title, date, and subjects provided by the photographer.
Credit line: Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Gift and purchase; Carol M. Highsmith; 2009; (DLC/PP-2010:031).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Photographer's choice (America project).

Subjects:
United States--Missouri--Carthage.
Drive-in theaters.
Route 66.
Carthage, Missouri.
America.

Format:
Digital photographs--Color--2000-2010.

Collections:
Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive

Part of: Highsmith, Carol M., 1946- Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

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