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{{Infobox NRHP
| name = 66 Drive-In
| nrhp_type = hd|nocat=yes
| image = Carthage Route 66 Drive-in.jpg
| caption =
| location= 17231 Old 66 Blvd., [[Carthage, Missouri]]
| coordinates={{coord|37|10|24|N|94|22|06|W|display=inline,title}}
| locmapin = Missouri#USA
| built = {{Start date|1949}}
| builder = Ozark Engineering Co.
| architecture = Drive-In Theater, [[Art Deco]] / [[Streamline Moderne]] (ticket booth)
| added = April 2, 2003
| area = {{convert|9|acre}}
| mpsub = [[U.S. Route 66 in Missouri]]
| refnum = 03000182<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
}}

'''66 Drive-In''' is a historic [[drive-in theater]] national [[Historic district (United States)|historic district]] located on [[U.S. Route 66]] in [[Carthage, Missouri|Carthage]], [[Jasper County, Missouri]]. The theater opened on September 22, 1949, four years before the first local television stations signed on in the [[Joplin, Missouri|Joplin]]-[[Springfield, Missouri|Springfield]] area.<ref name="nps">{{cite web|url=http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/route66/66_drive_in_carthage.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100616052606/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/route66/66_drive_in_carthage.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=June 16, 2010|title=66 Drive-In|publisher=US [[National Park Service]] Route 66 itinerary}}</ref><ref name="DNR">{{cite web| url =http://dnr.mo.gov/shpo/nps-nr/03000182.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: 66 Drive-In| access-date = 2017-01-01| author=Debbie Sheals| date=September 2002|publisher=Missouri Department of Natural Resources}} (includes 12 photographs from 2002)</ref> In an era before widespread adoption of [[transistor]]s and before the invention of [[integrated circuit]]s, [[car radio]]s were not standard equipment in all vehicles. The few radios installed in vehicles were of [[vacuum tube]] design and power-hungry by modern standards. A series of poles in the car park of the nine-acre site were therefore deployed to hold [[loudspeakers]] so that viewers could hear the movie.
[[File:The Double Bill.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Illuminated neon sign at the 66 Drive-in]]
When television became a rival to [[Film|cinema]] in the 1950s, [[movie studio]]s went to [[widescreen]] format to differentiate their product from broadcast TV; the drive-in's screen was widened sometime after 1953 to accommodate the change in format. A playground was added on-site during the [[baby boom]] era.

The cinema was closed in 1985, but was renovated and reopened in 1998. It now shows two movies Friday, Saturday, Sunday every week.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.66drivein.com/ |title=Home |website=66drivein.com}}</ref>

The speakers are now gone, although the poles which once supported them remain.<ref name="nps"/>

A drive-in movie venue with many strong similarities to the original 66 Drive-In design (such as the original [[4:3]] screen [[aspect ratio (image)|aspect ratio]], pole-mounted speakers and [[neon signage]] on the [[Marquee (sign)|marquée]]) appears during the epilogue of [[Pixar]]'s 2006 film ''[[Cars (film)|Cars]]''. The fictional drive-in is depicted as screening parody versions of other Pixar feature films.

==See also==
* [[List of drive-in theaters]]
* {{portal-inline|Companies}}
* {{portal-inline|Film}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080511163508/http://www.historicdistricts.com/MO/Jasper/state.html National Register of Historic Places]
*[http://66drivein.com/ Official site]

{{National Register of Historic Places in Missouri}}

[[Category:Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Jasper County, Missouri]]
[[Category:Drive-in theaters in the United States]]
[[Category:Cinemas and movie theaters in Missouri]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures on U.S. Route 66]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions along U.S. Route 66]]
[[Category:Rebuilt buildings and structures in the United States]]
[[Category:Tourist attractions in Jasper County, Missouri]]
[[Category:Theatres on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri]]
[[Category:1949 establishments in Missouri]]
[[Category:1985 disestablishments in Missouri]]
[[Category:1998 establishments in Missouri]]
[[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Jasper County, Missouri]]
[[Category:Event venues on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri]]
[[Category:Entertainment companies established in 1949]]
[[Category:Entertainment companies disestablished in 1985]]
[[Category:Re-established companies]]
[[Category:Entertainment companies established in 1998]]

66 Drive-In - Revision history

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