Some really quick background information.

A few years ago I started going to drive-in movie theaters.  I started going more and more often.  But it was still only a casual hobby.  Outside of several childhood memories I had no knowledge of the business.

Upon gaining access to the web, I found TONS of information about drive-ins all over, past and present. I started to find myself becoming obsessed with them.  Eventually a 3-hour drive to attend a drive-in sounded reasonable.  (Granted, those are usually ONE time deals, as I am fortunate enough to live within an hour of three drive-ins and another three only 30 minutes beyond those.)

Several friends have been after me to build a page.  EVERYONE seems to have one but me, so the pressure was on to make one.  I have NO EXPERIENCE with this at all.  This is my FIRST EVER ATTEMPT.  (So take it easy on me if you e-mail me with comments, ok?)

I needed something to have a webpage about.  So it was suggested I combine my interest in drive-ins with this webpage venture.  I resisted this idea because there are many excellent pages already out there on the topic.  (For a list of some of the pages, a LINKS page will be posted in the future.)  I surfed many of these pages and found they were nothing short of awesome!  I did not want my very first feeble attempt to be compared with the existing ones.  But then I thought "Oh well.  SOMEBODY might like it."

I certainly do not have the time, knowledge or know-how to put up such comprehensive pages.  (Besides, that's already been done.)  So I didn't know how to attack this.  That would soon be remedied when I found Sal Garcia's Southern California's Drive-Ins.  I saw how he specialized in a particular region.  I live in an area that was loaded with drive-ins too.  Twenty years ago there were FOURTEEN drive-ins within an hour of my house.  (That I know of.)  SIX of those were within 30 minutes!

I had the idea, now all I needed was to get started on it.  With the final encouragement coming from Sal himself, ("Go ahead. Try it. It's easy!") I decided to try this.

What you see is the beginning of this.  Hope you'll like it (if I ever get any more done to it.)

As anyone who has ever tried to find out information about drive-ins from the past will tell you.....It is NOT easy.  There is very little documentation and the main resource tends to be people's memories. And this often leads to conflicting reports.

I do not know every drive-in ever built.  But I keep finding more and will try to document as many as I can find.

In reference to Southern Pennsylvania/Northern Maryland drive-ins (both past and present) should you have information and/or pictures about one I do not list, and would like to share it with the world E-mail me.

I am not claiming that ALL the information on this page is 100% correct.  It's correct to the best of my knowledge.  [Insert joke here.]  I will try to list the sources for where I found the information.  So should you KNOW that the information is blatantly incorrect,  E-mail  me.

You will be credited with any information/pictures/materials etc that you provide, unless you request otherwise.