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DRIVE-IN THEATRE STATISTICS
Year
1955
No.
242
Cor Cap.
Admissions
1 1,521,134
Receipts
$5,749,623
1954
230
93,214
12,380,246
6,316,947
1953
174
74,419
1 1,134,788
5,862,920
1952
104
50,497
8,379,586
4,409,426
1951
82
40,520
6,554,572
3,347,670
1950
60
31,523
4,943,000
2,290,679
1949
30
15,924
3,019,314
1,393,760
1948
15
9,975
1,595,947
658,641
1947
7
5,438
670,583
274,325
1946
3
— No figures
were given
for this year —
NOTE: but these
* indicates are included
figures are withheld to in the totals.
avoid disclosing
individual operations
Two provinces did not have drive-ins — Quebec and Newfoundland. The former nos none because they ore banned by provincial legislation.
Amusement Taxes collected on drive-in admissions were $57,702 in 1947; $131,124 in 1948; $245,094 in 1949; $300,028 in 1950; $406,611 in 1951; $540390 in 1952; $685,389 in 1953; $721,630 in 1954; and $600,565 in 1955.
Information used here is from the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. Preliminary figures for 1955 were received at press time and these showed there were 242 driveins in operation in 1955 and they took in $5,749,623 in receipts from 11,521,134 admissions on which the amusement tax amounted to $600,565.
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