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66 Drive-In
Location17231 Old 66 Blvd., Carthage, Missouri
Coordinates37°10′24″N 94°22′06″W / 37.17333°N 94.36833°W / 37.17333; -94.36833
Area9 acres (3.6 ha)
Built1949 (1949)
Built byOzark Engineering Co.
Architectural styleDrive-In Theater, Art Deco / Streamline Moderne (ticket booth)
MPSU.S. Route 66 in Missouri
NRHP reference No.03000182[1]
Added to NRHPApril 2, 2003

66 Drive-In is a historic drive-in theater national historic district located on U.S. Route 66 in Carthage, Jasper County, Missouri. The theater opened on September 22, 1949, four years before the first local television stations signed on in the Joplin-Springfield area.[2][3]

Illuminated neon sign at the 66 Drive-in

Construction of the 66 Drive-In started on July 11, 1949 led by former theater owners W.D. Bradford and V.F. Naramore, who are also the owners of one out of three local indoor houses at the time. During the 66 Drive-In's construction, Carthage already had another drive-in theater, known as the Sunset Drive-In, which opened one month before the 66. Dickinson Theatres were the first operators of the drive-in. Grand opening was held on September 22, 1949 and the first films screened at the 66 Drive-In were Jack Carson in "Two Guys From Texas" and the Looney Tunes cartoon "A Horse Fly Fleas" before the feature. In addition to its original setup, a playground was added on-site during the baby boom era.

In an era before widespread adoption of transistors and before the invention of integrated circuits, car radios were not standard equipment in all vehicles. The few radios installed in vehicles were of vacuum tube design and power-hungry by modern standards. A series of poles in the car park of the nine-acre site were therefore deployed to hold loudspeakers so that viewers could hear the movie. When television became a rival to cinema in the 1950s, movie studios went to widescreen format to differentiate their product from broadcast TV, known as CinemaScope. Carthage's four other theaters at the time already had CinemaScope installations when 1954 and 1955 arrived. The 66 Drive-In's screen was widened during the 1955 season to accommodate the change in format, and was the last theater in Carthage to have widescreen installations during the widescreen boom.

The cinema was closed in 1985, but was renovated and reopened just in time for the 1998 season. It now shows two movies Friday, Saturday, Sunday every week.[4] The speakers are now gone due to sound upgrade to radio, although the poles which once supported them remain.[2]

A drive-in movie venue with many strong similarities to the original 66 Drive-In design (such as the original 4:3 screen aspect ratio, pole-mounted speakers and neon signage on the marquée) appears during the epilogue of Pixar's 2006 film Cars. The fictional drive-in is depicted as screening parody versions of other Pixar feature films.

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References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "66 Drive-In". US National Park Service Route 66 itinerary.
  3. ^ Debbie Sheals (September 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: 66 Drive-In" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved January 1, 2017. (includes 12 photographs from 2002)
  4. ^ "Home". 66drivein.com.

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