WCNC Charlotte's Larry Sprinkle takes a look at why today was so significant, in the past: The first drive-in movie theater.

Happy National Drive-in Movie Day! Explore the history of the drive-in and theater showtimes in Utah this weekend ...

The rise: The very first drive-in theater opened in 1933 near Camden, New Jersey, but Southern California was next at bat. The first L.A. drive-in sat at Pico and Westwood boulevards. The fall ...

Over 90 years ago, Richard Hollingshead Jr., a New Jersey businessman, created the first drive-in theater. The ...

Wilder Shaw is a staff writer at Cheapism covering food, specializing in taste tests and fast food. He has over a decade of ...

In some ways, it’s amazing these theaters still exist. Richard Hollingshead opened the first drive-in theater in New Jersey in 1933. By some accounts, he was inspired by an effort to accommodate ...