What Was The First Movie Shown At A Drive In Theater. Years later after I was married we used to take our kids to the Caringbah drive-in and they still talk about it 40 years later. The first real drive-in theater was opened by a gentleman named Richard Hollingshead.
The First Movie Ever Shown at a Drive-In Theater The drive-in is credited with being the brainchild of a New Jersey man. The Loco Drive-In is the first drive-in theater in the US. This day in 1933.
Cost for admission was 10 cents.
The First Drive-In Theater was invented by Richard M. At the time they were referred to as a park in theater. It was the first drive-in theater to open in Harlingen. June 6 1933 marked opening night at the Drive-In Theater as it was called although the actual name was the Automobile Movie Theater.
