THE ARCHIVE / Themes
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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Drive-in Theater, Route 283, Mangum, Oklahoma

East Main Drive-in Theater, Columbus, Ohio

Sunset Drive-in Theater, West 9th Street, Business Route 66, Amarillo, Texas

Ft. Roc Drive-in Theater, Route 21, Rock Hill, South Carolina
![King Kotten [i.e. Cotton] Drive-in Theater, Route 29, Greer, South Carolina](https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/mrg/01800/01839r.jpg)
King Kotten [i.e. Cotton] Drive-in Theater, Route 29, Greer, South Carolina

Red Run Drive-in Theater, Route 16, Rouzerville, Pennsylvania

Sky Vue Drive-in Theater, Route 82, El Dorado, Arkansas

Sky Vue Drive-in Theater, Route 82, El Dorado, Arkansas

Galesburg Drive-in Theater, Route 34, Galesburg, Indiana

Pendelton Pike Drive-in Theater, Route 36, Indianapolis, Indiana

Value Drive-in Theater, Route 6, Lambs Grove, Iowa

Paducah Drive-in Theater, Route 45C, Paducah, Kentucky

Paducah Drive-in Theater, Route 45C, Paducah, Kentucky

66 Park-in Theater, Watson Road, Route 366, Crestwood, Missouri

66 Park-in Theater, detail, Route 366, Crestwood, Missouri

Merrimack Park Drive-in Theater, Route 10, Methuen, Massachusetts

Bay State Drive-in Theater, Route 6, Seekonk, Massachusetts

Pueblo Drive-in Theater, Route 50, Pueblo, Colorado

Boro Drive-in Theater, Route 1, Attleboro, Massachusetts

Go-Win Drive-in Theater, Route 78, Guin, Alabama

Sunset Drive-in Theater, Moultrie, Georgia

Mid-way Drive-in Theater, Route 19, Junction City, Kansas

Drive-in Theater, Route 50, Pueblo, Colorado
