Wellfleet Drive-In Theater
| File:Wellfleet drive in theater entrance.jpg Main entrance of the theater | |
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| Address | 51 State Highway, Route 6 Wellfleet, Massachusetts United States |
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| Owner | Spring Brook Center |
| Type | Drive-in theater |
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| Opened | 1957 |
Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 489: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The Wellfleet Drive-In Theater, the only drive-in theater on Cape Cod, located in Wellfleet, Massachusetts along U.S. Route 6,[1] near the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. The complex offers first-run double features in season, with other attractions such as indoor cinemas, a flea market,[2] a miniature golf course,[3] and restaurants.
The Drive-In is one of the venues for the annual Provincetown International Film Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts .[4] Frommer's lists the Drive-In as one of the "500 Places to See Before They Disappear"[5] and Travel and Leisure selected it as a Top Ten Retro Escape.[6]
History
[edit | edit source]Its original owners, John Jentz and Charlie Zehnder, opened the drive-in on July 3, 1957.[7] It has a 100-by-44-foot (30 m × 13 m) screen, with sound provided by both an FM stereo signal[1] and the original individual monaural speakers that can be attached to a car's window.[5] The mini-golf features obstacles that date back to 1961.[3] The cinema was built in the 1980s; according to Eleanor Hazen, its owner at the time, one of the reasons the cinema was built is that film distributors started refusing to allow drive-ins to show first-run feature films.[8]
See also
[edit | edit source]- List of drive-in theaters
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References
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