{"id":1717,"date":"2008-06-06T07:53:07","date_gmt":"2008-06-06T11:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2008-06-06T09:01:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-06T13:01:39","slug":"today-in-history-worlds-first-drive-in-theatre-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/06\/today-in-history-worlds-first-drive-in-theatre-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"Today In History &#8211; World&#8217;s First Drive-in Theatre Opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"road trip\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/46584456@N00\/470910158\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/220\/470910158_4bbe232d1b_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"road trip\" \/><\/a>With the start of summer just around the bend, those of us of a certain age remember the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/science\/discoveries\/news\/2008\/06\/dayintech_0606\" target=\"_self\">Drive-in theatre<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The concept was developed by Richard Hollingshead Jr., who experimented with various projection and sound techniques in the driveway of his house. Using a 1928 Kodak projector mounted on the hood of his car and aimed at a screen pinned to some trees, Hollingshead worked out the spacing logistics to make sure that all cars had an unobstructed view of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>He received a patent for his idea in May 1933 and opened his first drive-in theater only three weeks later. They quickly fanned out across the country.<\/p>\n<p>Their popularity soared after World War II, when Americans started having kids in droves. (Can you say &#8220;Boom&#8221;?) The drive-in offered cheap family entertainment, a place where parents could take the kids without having to shell out for a baby sitter, or worry about them bothering other patrons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<small><a><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/photo-dropper\/images\/cc.png?resize=16%2C16\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" align=\"absMiddle\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.photodropper.com\/photos\/\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/a> credit: <a title=\"pstao1\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/46584456@N00\/470910158\/\" target=\"_blank\">pstao1<\/a><\/small><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the start of summer just around the bend, those of us of a certain age remember the Drive-in theatre. The concept was developed by Richard Hollingshead Jr., who experimented with various projection and sound techniques in the driveway of his house. Using a 1928 Kodak projector mounted on the hood of his car and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","wpcat-54-id"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pe0C4-rH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nyoatrader.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}