{"id":86417,"date":"2024-08-19T14:36:50","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/?p=86417"},"modified":"2024-08-19T14:36:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:36:50","slug":"this-is-home-to-americas-oldest-drive-in-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/this-is-home-to-americas-oldest-drive-in-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Home To America\u2019s Oldest Drive-In Theater&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pennsylvania features 29 drive-in theaters, including America\u2019s oldest, in Lehigh County. There are four in midstate: Dauphin County, York County, Juniata County, and Cumberland County.\n</p><p>The oldest drive-in, Shankweiler\u2019s, opened in the early 1930s in Orefield, a community of over 8,000 inhabitants. The Guinness Book of Records listed this theater, which opened in April 1934, as being built less than a year after the first in New Jersey.\n</p><h3>The drive-in experienced steady development<img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-86522 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/lorevista.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/08%5C/old-theater2.webp%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"800\"' height='\"600\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/old-theater2.webp' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</h3><p>According to the Shankweiler\u2019s Drive-In website, speaker poles and automobile speakers were installed in 1948. Later, a new CinemaScope Screen, snack bar, projection room, and bathroom facility were built. AM radio micro-vicinity transmission began in 1982, and FM radio micro-vicinity followed four years later.\n</p><p>The 89-year-old drive-in theater pioneered the use of FM broadcast stereo for audio. Additional modifications included Red LED Spectral recorded analog soundtrack readers, a cinema sound processor, and a digital projector. Shankweiler\u2019s was bought by new owners in 2022, and it is now open all year.<img decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-86521 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/lorevista.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/08%5C/old-theater1.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"1200\"' height='\"750\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/lorevista.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/old-theater1.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n</p><p>Lauren McChesney and Matthew McClanahan will take over as owners of the renowned drive-in cinema in November 2022, succeeding Paul and Susan Geissinger. McChesney stated that it was a perfect time to purchase the theater because it had been on the market for years and was beginning to resemble a \u201cgas station.\u201d\n</p><p>The founders of The Moving Picture Cinema, a pop-up movie company, wanted to host outdoor cinema events during the pandemic lockdown. Matthew told USA Today that they helped indoor theaters by organizing outdoor screenings when they were forced to close.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><p>Pennsylvania features 29 drive-in theaters, including America\u2019s oldest, in Lehigh County. There are four in midstate: Dauphin County, York County, Juniata County, and Cumberland County. The oldest drive-in, Shankweiler\u2019s, opened in the early 1930s in Orefield, a community of over 8,000 inhabitants. 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