Honk if you love wheely cool patented innovation 📽️🚙 On this day in 1933, Richard Hollingshead Jr. received a patent for his drive-in theater. The eight-page patent describes how automobiles constituted as seating and were arranged around the screen so successive cars behind each other won’t obstruct the view. There are 10 drive-in movie theaters on the National Register of Historic Places: Butchie’s Drive-in in Arkansas, Comanche Drive-in in Colorado, Spud Drive-in Theater in Idaho, 13-24 Dri
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Honk if you love wheely cool patented innovation 📽️🚙 On this day in 1933, Richard Hollingshead Jr. received a patent for his drive-in theater. The eight-page patent describes how automobiles constituted as seating and were arranged around the screen so successive cars behind each other won’t obstruct the view. There are 10 drive-in movie theaters on the National Register of Historic Places: Butchie’s Drive-in in Arkansas, Comanche Drive-in in Colorado, Spud Drive-in Theater in Idaho, 13-24 Dri
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