In the 1950s, there were over 4,000 drive-in movie theaters in America. Since the glory days of outdoor cinema, that number has dwindled to about 400, most of which are falling apart. Local ...

At their peak, drive-in theaters numbered around 4,000 across the United States — roughly one for every county in the country. The carload pricing model made a full night out genuinely affordable for ...

Has anything really changed at drive-in theaters across the country? A photographer based in Bozeman, Mont., visited a few to find out. Has anything really changed at drive-in theaters across the ...

Drive-ins helped movie theaters stay afloat during the pandemic, when their fate was in serious doubt. Now, years later, drive-in theaters are still providing a small but meaningful boost for the ...

Drive-in theaters once thrived in South Florida but have mostly vanished by 2025. The Thunderbird Swap Shop, in Broward since 1963, closed after a fire over a year ago. Temporary drive-in revivals in ...

When Matt McClanahan and Lauren McChesney found out that their local drive-in theater was in danger of being sold to developers, they knew they had to preserve the beloved neighborhood hub — and a ...