66 Drive-In
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Route 66 Drive-in in Carthage, Missouri.
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| Location: | 17231 Old 66 Blvd., Carthage, Missouri |
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| Coordinates: | 37°10′27″N 94°22′08″W / 37.1741°N 94.3689°WCoordinates: 37°10′27″N 94°22′08″W / 37.1741°N 94.3689°W |
| Governing body: | Private |
| NRHP Reference#: | 03000182 |
| Added to NRHP: | April 2, 2003 |
66 Drive-In is a historic drive-in theater along U.S. Route 66 in Carthage, Missouri which opened on September 22, 1949, four years before the first local television stations signed on in the Joplin-Springfield area.[1] In an era before widespread adoption of transistors and before the invention of integrated circuits, car radios in their original power-hungry vacuum tube design were not standard equipment in all vehicles; 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 1950's, movie studios went to widescreen format to differentiate their product from broadcast TV; the drive-in's screen was widened sometime after 1953 to accommodate the change in format. A playground was added on-site during the baby boom era.
The cinema was closed in 1985, but was renovated and reopened in 1998. It now shows two movies Friday, Saturday, Sunday every week.[2]
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