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Movies in the Morning: Let's go to the drive-in

Burlington, Vermont - June 30, 2011

Summer is in full swing and that means it may be time to take a trip to a drive-in movie theater.

The St. Albans drive-in is one of only four still left in Vermont. There were once 20 drive-in theaters in Vermont and as many as 5,000 across the United States.

The first drive-in theater opened in Camden, N.J., in the 1920s. The largest drive-in ever built was in New York. That theater could fit as many as 2,500 vehicles. Drive-in theaters started to decline in the late 1950s.

There are about 600 still in existence today.

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