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History OF THE DRIVE-IN CINEMA

TOPGEAR: SOCRATES! LONG TIME NO SEE. LET US TALK OF DRIVEIN CINEMAS, FOR THEY ARE BACK!

SOCRATES: So I hear, TopGear. But please, let us begin at the beginning. To know where we are, we must know from where we have come.

TG: Most wise, Socrates. Well, the story of the drive-in begins with an obese, angry mother.

S: As do so many great quests.

TG: Quite so. In New Jersey, in the late Twenties, a young entrepreneur named Richard Hollingshead found himself cooped up at home with his frustrated, overweight mother.

S: Why was she frustrated?

Because she was very enormous, and therefore could not visit the cinema. At least not in comfort, and not without several shoehornwielding ushers to extract her afterwards. So her diligent son decided to do something about

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