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Drive In Theaters.
The drive-in joins the scale of a private car to the scale of a public spectacle. Its screen and roadside sign address different audiences, one already inside and another still deciding to enter. Margolies’s photographs let us study that threshold: the entrance, the name and the promise of an evening beyond it. Look across the collection for variations in lettering, approach and landscape, and use the photograph date to locate each image within his travels.
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Terrace Drive-In Theater, Terrace Way, Bakersfield, California
Top-Hi Drive-In Theater sign, R. 97, Toppenish, Washington
Viking Drive-In Theater sign, darker sky, Route 29, Anderson, South Carolina
Flamingo Drive-In Theater sign, Dal Passo Road, Hobbs, New Mexico
Star-Lite Drive-In Theater sign, Route 85, Minot, North Dakota
Skyway Auto Theatre sign, horizontal view, Route 20, Ashtabula, Ohio
Winchester Drive-In Theater sign, S. Western Avenue, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Starlite Drive-In Theater sign, Route 10, Bay City, Michigan
Airway Drive-In Theater sign, Route 180, Saint Ann, Missouri
Falls Theatre Motor Vu sign, 2nd Avenue North, Great Falls, Montana
North 53 Drive-In Theater sign, Route 53, Rome, Georgia
State Drive-In Theater sign, wide view showing entire arch, Route 24, State Avenue
State Drive-In Theater sign, closer view, Route 24, State Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas
Trail Drive-In Theater ticket booth, Route 41, Sarasota, Florida
Quinebaug Drive-In Theater sign, horizontal view, Route 131, Quinebaug, Connecticut
Paducah Drive-In Theater sign, Route 45C, Paducah, Kentucky
Grove Drive-in Theater sign, Route 71, Springdale, Arkansas
Drive-in cinema, Route 19, Pinellas Park, Florida
Deer Lake Drive-in Theater, Route 61, Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania
Augusta Drive-in Theater, Route 11, Augusta, Maine
Drive-in, Route 30, Marshalltown, Iowa
Breezeway Drive-in Theater, Kings Highway, Homestead, Florida
Old drive-in Theater, San Bernardo Avenue, Laredo, Texas
