Bibliograph

Michigan's drive-in theaters, Harry Skrdla

Type

Label

Michigan's drive-in theaters, Harry Skrdla

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Michigan's drive-in theaters

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Harry Skrdla

Series statement

Images of America

Summary

Few American phenomena are more evocative of time, place, and culture than the drive-in theater. From its origins in the Great Depression, through its peak in the 1950s and 1960s and ultimately its slow demise in the 1980s, the drive-in holds a unique place in the country's collective past. Michigan's drive-ins were a reflection of this time and place, ranging from tiny rural 200-car "ozoners" to sprawling 2,500-car behemoths that were masterpieces of showmanship, boasting not only movies and food, but playgrounds, pony rides, merry-go-rounds, and even roving window washers

Target audience

adult

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