There were 4,000 drive-in theaters in the U.S. by the end of the 1950s. Only about 300 remain today.
Sitting in the back of a pick-up truck Dustin Roberts left and Ashlyn Rimsky from Walnutport watch the movie Leprechaun playing at the Shankweiler's Drive-In, near Allentown, in Orefield, PA, was the second drive-in built in the U.S. . On April 13, the drive-in will celebrate its 90th anniversary. Friday, March 15, 2024.North Whitehall Twp.
Inspired by the Camden County theater, Wilson Shankweiler built his drive-in as an attraction for his popular restaurant and inn. 90 years later, Shankweiler’s will celebrate its anniversary on April 13 by bringing in 1930s vehicles and re-enacting vintage drive-in DIY, including hanging a bedsheet between two poles for a screen.
Drive-ins started facing leaner years when America took a harder turn toward suburbia for housing, shopping, and movie multiplexes in the 1970s and 80s. Real estate prices rose, often making the land more valuable than the theater. Over a period of decades, neon marquees from Long Island to California went dark and developers kept knocking, looking for land for self-storage facilities or shopping centers.
At that point, the theater had been on the market for several years. Its previous owners and neighbors, according to McClanahan and McChesney, were hoping some film buffs/dreamers like themselves would fend off the warehouses popping up all over Lehigh County.
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