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.
209 photographs
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Shasta Drive-In, Klamath Falls, Oregon

Shasta Drive-In, Klamath Falls, Oregon

Bend Drive-In, Bend, Oregon

Midway Drive-In, North Kingsville, Ohio

Reused neon from Campus Drive-In, Lemon Grove, California

Vero Drive-In, Vero Beach, Florida

Cairo Drive-In, Cairo, Georgia

Golden Spike Drive-In, Omaha, Nebraska

Shrewsbury Drive-In, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Shrewsbury Drive-In, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Neponset Drive-In, Dorchester, Massachusetts

Seekonk Twin Drive-In, Seekonk, Massachusetts

Westerly Drive-In, Westerly, Rhode Island

Merrimack Park Drive-In, Methuen, Massachusetts

Beltline Drive-In, Grand Rapids, Michigan

Skyview Drive-In, Route 28, Brockton, Massachusetts

Quinebaug Drive-In, Route 131, Quinebaug, Connecticut

Drive-in, Jacksonville Beach, Florida

Drive-in, Holiday, Florida

Mt. Baldy Drive-In, La Verne, California

Olympic Drive-In, West Los Angeles, California

Rubidoux Drive-In, Rubidoux, California

Compton Drive-In Theater, Rosecrans Avenue, Compton, California
