Trying to get into this retro way of thinking, I have been reading a lot about drive-ins. Some things I have learned:
- the sound of the movie was once projected through a simple speaker hung inside the car window, but is now broadcast to be picked up by your car's radio
- the drive in theater was patented in 1933 when a man decided it would be a good idea to nail a screen to some tress in his back yard and play a movie with a Kodak projector placed on the hood of his car
- the first drive-in slogan was "The whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are"
- drive-ins reached their peak in the 1950's (will probably play up to this in my design)
- drive-ins were considered the ideal place to go on a date and 'neck' (something else I will play up to in my design)
- drive-ins had a serious decline in popularity, but have seen a significant revival since 2001 (luckily for me)
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You forgot confort. That's the main plus over theatre after all. You can eat, talk, and sit however you please in the car while you're watching the movie. Oh, and no more crying babies (maybe).
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