Acknowledgments


About this page.


I first started collecting the data in mid to late 1997, to fill in the missing information in Evil Sam Grahm's open drive-ins and graveyard. By the time I sent it in, he had scaled back his submission policy, and none of my contributions made it in. Later still, the page consolidated even further and the link now takes you to just one drive-in: the 99W in Newberg, Oregon.

Flash forward to October 1999, and I had finally learned HTML through practice on the Pat Pack message board. In the middle of a long day at what turned out to be the last day of a temporary work assignment (they waited several hours to tell us they had no work to give us) I clicked on a GeoCities page returned by a search engine, and found, for the first time, that the page loaded up with no annoying pop-up ads. My last objection to trying a free service such as GeoCities was gone, and I could now put up my drive-in information myself. I found, though, that even the newer Macintosh browsers still open seperate windows for ads, so I had to convert my entire site to inlined Geoguides:

All of the uncredited photos are taken by myself, starting in the autumn of 1997. Most of the information comes from my own recollection, though some credited info comes from Evil Sam's Washington Graveyard, once revived on Wesley Horton's page. Before I found this on the web again, I had luckily made a hard-copy of it and the Washington portion of Tim Reed's 1955 Index of Drive-in Theaters from Theater Catalog, a resource that is still scarce. Tim's list provided leads that no other list has given me, and it is a shame that no other drive-in researcher can use it. Bits of the Evil Sam Graveyard are also starting to appear in driveonin.com



Two pictures from Tim Reed's Drive-in Workshop; from the original Hollingshead patent application, I think.

In these past few months, I have also made extensive combined use of driveonin.com and Microsoft Terraserver. When I didn't know the exact address of a drive-in, I would find it on driveonin.com, click on the area map provided with the theater listing, then find topo and satellite image of the drive-in on Terraserver.

Most entries have at least a satellite image or a United States Geological Survey topograhic map of the drive-in site, to prove that it exists or existed.

I also may have picked up data from other Web sites. See my links page for a full list of the pages I have recently visited.

--Arthur Allen
November 29, 1999

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