Gear-heads and road warriors rejoice. The Drive-Ins are coming soon - again.
Opening this friday, the near-Ottawa single screen Port Elmsley Drive-In first opened in 1952 (drive-ins.com). It closed in 1991, but reopened in 2000 with the capacity to admit 349 cars. The first drive-in movie theatre, invented in Camden, New Jersey by Richard Hollingshead Jr., reportedly could accommodate 500 cars when it opened in 1933 (wikipedia.org). Also according to wikipedia, the Britannia Drive-In (1949-1996) was the capital's last remaining drive-in movie theatre, replaced by the Coliseum Ottawa Cinemas in 1996.
Here's the Port Elmsley Drive-In site:
Here's the Port Elmsley Drive-In site:
Also nearby and opening this friday, the Gatineau region's Ciné-Parc Templeton boasts two Drive-In screens - one screening in French and the other in English - and can admit an impressive total of 530 cars. Check it out:
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