Although there are just 400 drive-in movie theaters left in the country after a peak of about 4,000 five decades ago, the remaining ones are mostly thriving, reports the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Among the survivors cited in the article are the Route 66 Drive-In in Springfield, Ill.; the Skyview Drive-In in Litchfield, Ill.; and the 66 Drive-In in Carthage, Mo. Those three are on Route 66, and there are more that the Post-Dispatch didn’t mention. A more complete list can be found here.
The article also provides some handy advice for drive-in novices.
The crowd at the Litchfield Skyview last year (appropriately enough for “Cars”) was quite good, and the refreshments weren’t even that expensive (by theatre measures, at least.) Even better is the price of admission: $2 for a double feature.