Although drive-in movies are rare today, there were over 4,000 open-air theaters across the country during the '50s and '60s. Business Insider Subscribe Newsletters ...

"Drive-ins started to really take off in the ‘50s," Kopp said. "They offered family entertainment. People could sit in their cars, they could bring their babies, they could smoke.

In fact, during the height of the drive-in movie theater boom between the mid-’50s and mid-’60s, there were more than 50 locations here, from Oxnard to Huntington Beach, Los Angeles to Loma Linda.

The place charged 50 cents for adults and 9 cents for children, advertising “bottles warmed free for the baby.” In the 1970s, the newly named Vali Drive-in was the center of Powell’s teen ...

Oregon was once home to about 50 drive-in movie theaters. Only a handful remain. That includes the 99W Drive-In movie theater, which opened in Newberg in August of 1953.

Many people may not remember the last full-time movie drive-in in the City of Corpus Christi. Maybe that's because the last one closed more than 40 years ago.

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Drive-in movie theaters reached their peak popularity in the '50s and '60s — at one point, there were over 4,000 of them in the US — but they have been in decline ever since.

Tickets back in the '50s were 25 cents a car plus 25 cents for each person in the car. Like the movie theaters today, most of the theater owners’ profits came from food and popcorn sales.

The drive-in movie theater is a powerful piece of American nostalgia. ... In the late ’50s or early ’60s, there may have been as many as five drive-ins operating at one time.