It wasn't just a movie — it was an entire American childhood.
With only 25 cents per car and 25 cents per person, the first drive-in movie theatre opened on June 6, 1933, on Admiral Wilson Boulevard in Pennsauken, New Jersey. The outdoor movie idea started ...
Drive-in theaters evoke nostalgia, a step back to the 1950s. The first opened in New Jersey in 1933, when opening night drew people from at least 20 states to watch movies outdoors from their cars.