Skip to content
News
Link copied to clipboard
Link copied to clipboard

‘Magnet for strange’: Nostalgic Pa. drive-in lets you sleep over, bring your dog, get weird

There were 4,000 drive-in theaters in the U.S. by the end of the 1950s. As of August 2018, only 317 remained open, with 26 in Pennsylvania and one in New Jersey.

The Mahoning Drive-In, of the few, dwindling drive-in movie theaters in Pa, is taking a different tact, by going back to the past. The theater only plays 35 mm movies, old monster flicks and b-movies, in Lehighton Pa., Friday, August 9, 2019
The Mahoning Drive-In, of the few, dwindling drive-in movie theaters in Pa, is taking a different tact, by going back to the past. The theater only plays 35 mm movies, old monster flicks and b-movies, in Lehighton Pa., Friday, August 9, 2019Read moreSTEVEN M. FALK / Staff Photographer
    by Jason Nark
    Published