Once upon a time drive in movies were the great American pastime – warm summer nights, ice cold drinks, popcorn, the magic of film – and it all began less than 50 miles from Bucks County. On June 6, 1933, just outside Camden, New Jersey drivers paid 25 cents per car, plus an additional 25 cents per person to watch the English comedy Wives Beware at ‘the first automobile movie theater in the world.’ It was the brainchild of Richard Milton Hollingshead, Jr. who called it a ‘Park In Theater’. As he explained ‘My invention relates to a new and useful outdoor theater whereby the transportation facilities to and from the theater are made to constitute an element of the seating facilities.’ He cannily advertised his exciting new concept by assuring one and all: ‘The whole family is welcome, regardless of how noisy the children are.’ The concept of showing movies outdoors wasn’t novel; people often watched silent films on screens set up at beaches or other wide open spaces, but Hollingshead was definitely the first person to create a formal outdoor space for movie watching once talkies took over the industry. And while his initial set up was pretty basic –  he balanced a 1928 Kodak projector on the hood of his car and suspended a sheet between a couple of trees, while the audio came from a radio hidden behind the sheet – nevertheless, his idea clearly worked and he patented it.