We use Optical Character Recognition (OCR) during our scanning and processing workflow to make the content of each page searchable. You can view the automatically generated text below as well as copy and paste individual pieces of text to quote in your own work.
Text recognition is never 100% accurate. Many parts of the scanned page may not be reflected in the OCR text output, including: images, page layout, certain fonts or handwriting.
Zke Drivein . .
★ A regular department devoted to the design, equipment and operation of outdoor theatres.
Hillside Drive-In with Sloping Ramp System
Set on a hillside at Lunenburg, Mass., the Tri-Town drive-in theatre has a special ramp design in which the central and rear sections are elevated.
eral building, which houses refreshment facilities, rest rooms and the projection booth on one level, at the fourth ramp from the screen. This building is T-shaped with the booth forming the foot of the T. On either side of the booth is children’s playground equipment, supplied by the Miracle Equipment Company.
The first ramp in front of the booth is beyond a bank steep enough at that point to clear the tops of the cars, and the ramp in back of the general building is elevated enough to give a clear view of the screen over the building. RCA projectors were installed under the supervision of Ernest Comi, general manager of Capitol Theatre Supply of Boston, and Charlie Fish, the company’s chief engineer.
The 116 by 49-foot screen of the Tri-Town (above) shown from the rear ramps which are elevated on the hillside location. The general building (at rig ht) houses the refreshment facilities and the projection booth in front. On either side of the booth is Miracle playground equipment, including slides like those shown at left.
the hillside site chosen for the Tri-Town drive-in theatre at Lunenburg, Mass., was employed by its designer, Richard Rubin of Boston, for a graded system of ramps whereby those in the center and rear sections are elevated in a series of steps. The new 800-car drive-in, which is owned by Fred Fedeli and his son Edwin, derives its name from its location near three Massachusetts’ towns — Fitchburg, Leominster and Lunenburg, in the Lake Whalom district. It was opened early in May.
The design of the drive-in places the gen
SET BY A POND
The drive-in location has another distinction : it is adjacent to a large pond lying between it and the highway ; this pond is crossed at its upper end by a stone bridge. The back of the screen tower faces the highway, and the box-office structure is placed to the left of it.
The screen tower is 116 feet wide and 47 feet high. Of wood construction, the tower was built “lying on its face” with main front vertical members hinged to conciete supports so that a crane could pull the whole structure up into place when it was completed. The back and wings are sheathed in corrugated aluminum. 1 his and the name sign at the top are reflected in the pond as seen from the highway. (See photo.)
In constructing the drive-in the owners were able to cut down costs through an
24
MOTION PICTURE HERALD, OCTOBER 8, 1955