Midway Drive-In
This week's Saturday Timewatch features another American institution, the drive-in theater.
Midway Drive-In, literally in a field half way between Quitaque and Turkey, Texas, opened in 1955 and could accommodate 250 cars. It lasted until 1987 and was closed for 13 years before new owners gave it a go in May 2000. Missing a year in 2005, it reopened again in 2006 but finally failed in 2011, largely because Hollywood was moving to digital and the finance wasn't there to purchase digital projectors.
Perhaps it will still be resurrected yet again given that we did find a brand new drive-in, albeit in a much more highly populated area flic.kr/p/2nUwLGQ
Midway Drive-In
This week's Saturday Timewatch features another American institution, the drive-in theater.
Midway Drive-In, literally in a field half way between Quitaque and Turkey, Texas, opened in 1955 and could accommodate 250 cars. It lasted until 1987 and was closed for 13 years before new owners gave it a go in May 2000. Missing a year in 2005, it reopened again in 2006 but finally failed in 2011, largely because Hollywood was moving to digital and the finance wasn't there to purchase digital projectors.
Perhaps it will still be resurrected yet again given that we did find a brand new drive-in, albeit in a much more highly populated area flic.kr/p/2nUwLGQ