35 Vintage Photos of Drive-In Theaters from the 1930s to the 1960s

Drive-in theater, Florida, 1965
Drive-in theater, Chicago, 1951
Customers arriving by car at a ‘fly-in drive-in’ theater, New Jersey, 1949
Usher, drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948
Drive-in theater, Chicago, 1951
Drive-in theater, Los Angeles, 1949
Drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948
Drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948
Drive-in theater, Chicago, 1951
Gilmore Island, Los Angeles, 1949
Gilmore Island, Los Angeles, 1949
Drive-in theater, Connecticut, 1955
Drive in movie theatre marquee, late 1940s or early 1950s
Whitestone Bridge Drive-in Movie Theater, the Bronx, New York, June 20, 1951.
As a publicity stunt Les Davis (on top of the screen) lives in a tent on top of a drive-in movie screen in 1955 Connecticut
Rancho Drive-in Theater, San Francisco, 1948
A Joel McCrea movie at the Rancho Drive-in Theater, San Francisco, 1948
Drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948
Drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948
Drive-in theater, San Francisco, 1948
Kids enjoy one of the four double-seated glider swings in the mini-playground at the Rancho Drive-In Theater, San Francisco, 1948
Aerial view of a ‘fly-in drive-in theater,’ with plane in parking lot, 1949
Drive-In Fly-In Theatre, East Dennis, Mass., 1949
Whitestone Bridge Drive-in Movie Theater, the Bronx, New York, June 20, 1951.
A uniformed drive-in theater attendant hands a clip-on speaker to the driver of convertible while the car’s other passengers watch, New York, early 1950s.
A drive-in theatre in Chicago, 1950
A drive-in theatre in Los Angeles, 1930s
A drive-in theatre in Camden, New Jersey, 1930s
During their 50s heyday there were over 4,600 drive-in movie theatres across the States.
Uniformed lot boys sell tickets to the drivers of the cars swarming around them.
Actor Charlton Heston as Moses with arms flung wide appearing in motion picture The Ten Commandments as it is shown at a drive-in movie theatre in Utah in 1958
A four-screen drive-in theatre in 1953, where movies are beamed in all directions from a projector in the centre of the parking lot.
Attendant Bud Grote hands an in-car speaker to Thomas Speakman at San Pedro Outdoor Theater , May 1948

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