Nostalgia and novelty are driving the revival, but drive-ins offer practical advantages, too. By 1997, only 11 Texas drive-ins were still in business.
Over the next few decades, the rising cost of real estate and the popularity of the indoor multiplex contributed to the drive-in’s decline. The ramps and parking areas were made of wet sand that had to be re-graded and soaked before each night’s screening, and “even so, some would occasionally get stuck.” Texas’ first drive-in lasted less than a month before a storm destroyed it.ĭrive-ins - mostly showing B movies with sound provided by metal speakers at each parking space - peaked in popularity during the 1950s, when Texas had about 475 of the nation’s 5,000 drive-in theaters. On July 5, 1934, Josserand’s “experimental” theater opened on the beach in Galveston “with the cars facing out to sea,” historian Kerry Segrave wrote in Drive-in Theaters: A History from Their Inception in 1933. The very next year, Houston architect Louis Josserand launched a Texas version.
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The very first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey, in the summer of 1933. We may have left behind our poodle skirts and jukeboxes, but in a handful of places around Texas, the drive-in is still the place to be on a Friday or Saturday night. This is a night out at one of Texas’ drive-in theaters, and it is not a thing of the past. A starry night sky provides a backdrop as the opening credits fill up the big screen. You’re in your car with the windows rolled down, enjoying a breeze under the light of a Texas moon.
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