How He Nailed a Bedsheet and Invented the Drive-In: Richard Hollinshead’s 1930 Backyard Experiment
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How He Nailed a Bedsheet and Invented the Drive-In: Richard Hollinshead’s 1930 Backyard Experiment
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Richard Hollinshead gets the starring role in this breezy retelling, and he’s portrayed as the kind of tinkerer who looks at an awkward theater seat and says, “Hold my projector.” He noticed his mother couldn’t sit comfortably in those narrow cinema chairs, so he went full backyard MacGyver: a bedsheet nailed to the trees became a screen, a car hood did duty as a projector mount, and speakers were tucked behind the cloth. He even worked out ramp angles so folks in the back could peek over the tops of cars in front — simple engineering, big payoff. By 1931 he opened what he called the world’s first drive-in movie theater near Camden, New Jersey, and suddenly paying a quarter per car plus 25 cents per person felt like a bargain for cinematic stargazing.
