A driveway experiment, a postwar boom, then streaming and soaring land costs.

On June 6, 1933, a New Jersey auto-parts salesman named Richard Hollingshead opened a movie theater in his own backyard, then took the idea commercial in Camden. He’d nailed a screen between two trees ...

Drive-in movie theaters used to only be a drive away. But the number of outdoor screens started to drop as property values increased, moviegoers went with other options, and multi-screen movie ...

Once Indianapolis movie goers could choose from multiple drive-in theaters. One even gave helped name a neighborhood.