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“The Whole Family Is Welcome… Regardless of How Noisy the Children Are.” That was the slogan when the very first drive-in movie theater opened its gates in Camden, New Jersey on June 6th, 1933. Richard Hollingshead, Jr. — a chemical company magnate with a passion for movies — nailed a screen between trees in his backyard, threw a Kodak projector on his car hood, and tested sound levels by rolling his windows up and down. That brilliant, weird, totally American experiment ga