Wilson says she is prepping for a boost in business, bringing in more port-a-potties and setting up the snack bar to enable ordering from the car and pickup when ready to lessen contact and overcrowding.
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“’Jurassic Park’ was the first movie that really marked the renaissance of the drive-ins. “We’ve had a renaissance,” Vincent said, noting studios began giving them new releases again in the early ‘90s. Cars full of moviegoers wait for the main attraction to start at Bengies Drive-In Theatre in Baltimore in 2005.
While they may make us think about a more innocent and carefree time that has passed, drive-ins have never really disappeared. John Vincent, president of the United Drive-In Theater Owners Association, estimates 20 drive-ins around the country remain open right now out of 305 that exist, down from the 4,300 that he says operated at its peak in 1957. It’s very calming and pleasant.” The marquee for the Round Up Drive-in-Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, circa 1964. “In a normal season, to be able to be with your friends and family and sit there and just watch a movie under the stars is something remarkable. You go into an indoor (theater) and it’s not the same as coming to a drive-in theater and you’re stepping back in time into the 1950s,” said Wilson, whose theater is closed due to the virus. “That’s the reason I love the drive-in, because it is a step back in time.
Eyerman / The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images Viewers in cars watch Charlton Heston as Moses in "The Ten Commandments" at an unspecified theater. Carhops have returned, so maybe drive-ins can also take people to another era, with a call to the past lighting the way to the future.
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