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unusual facts about drive-in movie theater



1982 Nebraska vs. Penn State football game

Late in the half, Nebraska got on the board after a seven-play, 80-yard drive culminated in a Turner Gill touchdown pass followed by the extra point by Kevin Seibel.

2012 MAC Championship Game

KSU: Dri Archer, 15-yard run, (Freddy Cortez kick), 8:57 Drive: 3 plays, 22 yards; KSU 7-0

3PM Pick-Up

3PM Pick-Up is an Australian drive radio show with Chrissie Swan & Jane Hall.

Aleca Hughes

She organized a bone marrow donor drive and the Goals for Mandi fundraiser for teammate Mandi Schwartz.

Arak, Iran

With the Persian Shah's approval, Yusuf Khan diverted the main river to drive out the hostiles and built the Soltan Abad fortress, or Baladeh, a war fortress to act as a buffer and serve as the foundation of what would become modern Arak.

Aston Martin Owners Club

Having been fired with enthusiasm by winning an automobile race at age twenty and by his first meeting with 'Bert' Bertelli shortly after, his success led to the purchase of the team car LM7 and an invitation to drive “under works control’’ at Le Mans in 1933.

Auto Avio Costruzioni 815

In December 1939, AAC was commissioned by Lotario, Marquis di Modena, to build and prepare two racing cars for him and Alberto Ascari to drive in the 1940 Brescia Grand Prix.

Beaumont Botanical Gardens

The Beaumont Botanical Gardens (23.5 acres), also known as the Tyrrell Park Botanical Gardens, are botanical gardens and a conservatory located in Tyrrell Park at 6088 Babe Zaharias Drive, Beaumont, Texas, USA.

Cathay Organisation

Cathay distributed Golden Harvest films and when Jurong Drive-In screened Bruce Lee’s Big Boss, the line-up of cars was so long that many got out and walked.

Daimler Sovereign

In 1967 the final drive ratio was quietly changed from 3.31:1 to 3.54:1 which led to press complaints about fussier high speed cruising but which improved acceleration times from stand-still within the range of the speeds legal in Britain following the introduction, in December 1965, of a blanket 70 mph (113 km/h) speed limit across the nation's highways.

Dan Dodge

After moving to Kanata, Ontario, (a high-tech area outside Ottawa) to start Quantum Software Systems (later renamed QNX Software Systems to avoid confusion with the famous hard drive manufacturer), the first commercial version of QNX was released for the Intel 8088 CPU in 1982.

Daniel Fish

In January 2011, Fish directed an adaptation of Nicholas Ray's film Bigger Than Life, entitled Tom Ryan Thinks He's James Mason Starring in a Movie By Nicholas Ray in which a Man's Illness Provides an Escape from the Pain, Pressure and Loneliness of Trying to be the Ultimate American Father, Only to Drive Him Further Into the More Thrilling Though Possibly Lonelier Roles of Addict and Misunderstood Visionary.

Dark energy

Alan Guth proposed in the 1970s that a negative pressure field, similar in concept to dark energy, could drive cosmic inflation in the very early universe.

Diamond Village, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Located approximately 18 miles north-east of Kingstown, the capital of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, it actually takes about an hour to drive to or from Kingstown along the winding Windward Highway.

Drive bay

A drive bay is a standard-sized area for adding hardware to a computer.

Drive-through

Pennsylvania State Representative Kevin P. Murphy installed a drive-through window designed to speed constituent service.

Driving club

It used to meet at Lord Chesterfield's house, and drive, in procession, to dinner at the Castle Hotel in Richmond.

Economic reforms and recovery proposals regarding the Eurozone crisis

Ben Bernanke warned of the risks of such imbalances in 2005, arguing that a "savings glut" in one country with a trade surplus can drive capital into other countries with trade deficits, artificially lowering interest rates and creating asset bubbles.

Ford C3 transmission

The Bordeaux Automatic Transmission Plant, in Blanquefort, France (in the Bordeaux metropolitan area) produces automatic transmissions for a variety of rear-wheel drive vehicles.

Frank H. Woody

After teaching for several years he began moving westward in 1852 before eventually settling in what was then called Flathead county (today's Ravalli and Missoula Counties in Washington Territory where he was paid to drive supplies for trade with the native populations.

Full of It

Sam tells lies like "I drive a Porsche", "My dad's a rock star", "My dog ate my homework", "I never miss a shot" (at basketball) and that Vicki Sanders and his English teacher Mrs. Moran are lusting after him.

H.W.A.

The three members came together in 1989 for an independent record label, Drive-By Records to record their first album, Livin' in a Hoe House, which was released a year later.

Heart of Gold International Short Film Festival

The Festival is in the regional Queensland city of Gympie, just a two-hour drive north of Brisbane, along the Bruce Highway and a short 45 minutes drive from the beach at Noosa Heads.

House Party 4: Down to the Last Minute

The mansion comes with a platinum colored Mercedes-Benz 430 and, although Uncle Charles has told him not to drive the car or have people over, Jon Jon wastes no time in doing both; Jon Jon is not only having an "entertainment party", but he's auditioning his hip-hop band (IMx) for a record executive.

Ian McGregor

He has also presented drive time for Manx Radio on the Isle of Man and worked as a presenter on the trial broadcasts of Chelmer Radio and Maidstone’s CTR (now KMfm).

Jorge Arteaga

Jorge begun racing in the USA in 2010, acting as an ambassador for NASCAR's D4D (Drive for Diversity Program) and working in Revolution Racing alongside with drivers such as Mackena Bell and Sergio Peña.

Joseph Graves Olney

On one such drive, Olney, John Ringo, Ike Clanton, and Al Turner hurrahed the town of Safford, Arizona, a typical cowboy behavior.

Julie Glass

Glass took another break from skating in 2002, during which time she and her husband ran a roller rink and drive-through coffee shop in Lebanon, Oregon.

KMYT-TV

Both stations share studios on Memorial Drive and East 27th Street South (near Interstate 44) in the southeast section of Tulsa, and its transmitter located between East 93rd Street South and the Muskogee Turnpike in southeastern Tulsa County (near Broken Arrow).

KNIN-TV

Owned by Journal Communications, KNIN is sister to ABC affiliate KIVI-TV and the two outlets share studios (with several co-owned radio stations) on East Chisholm Drive in Nampa along I-84/US 30/SH-55.

Madonna with the Fish

On the other side the archangel Raphael is presenting at the foot of the throne the young Tobias, whom he formerly guided to the River Tigris, and who bears the miraculous fish whose heart, liver and gall were to restore his father's sight, and drive the demons from his bride.

Malpas, Newport

The roads in Woodlands are named after World War II generals, e.g. Allenbrooke Avenue, Horrocks Close, Montgomery Road, Robertson Way, Wavell Drive, etc.

Molecular drive

Molecular drive is a term coined by Gabriel Dover in 1982 to describe evolutionary processes that change the genetic composition of a population through DNA turnover mechanisms.

Por la libre

Despite the movie title, they do not drive by the free highway but by the autopista, where they have to pay fees and end almost with no money by the time they arrive to Acapulco.

PreviewNetworks

For media owners, Preview Networks offers video content integrations available as an HTML embed or XML feed solution to increase audience loyalty and drive traffic.

Providence Stadium

Located along the East Bank Highway the stadium is a ten minute drive from Georgetown's city centre and a 30 minute drive from Cheddi Jagan International Airport.

Rosemary Clooney Museum

The Rosemary Clooney Museum is located in a historic 1835 house, located on Riverside Drive, in Augusta, Kentucky.

Schlachtgeschwader 1

The unit later moved to Tatsinskaya in July and Tusov in August to support the 6th Army during the drive to the Don, and later Stalingrad, which began on June 25.

Sega Meganet

Sega's 16-bit console, the Sega Genesis (known as Mega Drive in most areas outside of North America) was released in Japan on October 29, 1988, though the launch was overshadowed by Nintendo's release of Super Mario Bros. 3 a week earlier.

Shimazu Tadatsune

Like his father and uncle, he was known for bravery on the battlefield, and during the latter half of Hideyoshi's invasions of Korea, fighting beside his father, he helped drive off the Ming army of over 100,000 men with only 8000 men.

Sick Mother Fakers

The band demonstrated inspiration by Slobodan Šijan's movies Who's That Singing Over There and The Marathon Family in the songs "Dalje nećes moći...", "Daj pare" ("Give the Money"), "Đenka", "Opljačkani smo" ("We Have Been Robbed") and "Vozi, Miško" ("Drive, Miško"), featuring the Who's That Singing Over There theme.

Smart electric drive

It is a version of Smart ForTwo electric drive designed by Jeremy Scott.

Steam engine

Tower's engines were used by the Great Eastern Railway to drive lighting dynamos on their locomotives, and by the Admiralty for driving dynamos on board the ships of the Royal Navy.

Tall Timber, Colorado

Sugarloaf Road runs through the center of the CDP, leading south to State Highway 119 (Boulder Canyon Drive) and west to Sugarloaf and eventually the Peak to Peak Highway.

Test Drive Unlimited 2

Test Drive Unlimited 2 includes a variety of roads, sports cars, and bikes based on models from a handful of manufacturers; It also includes four wheel drive SUVs, a new feature for the series which is looked upon by the community as being subpar.

The Big Tree, Rockport

Before the 1931 opening of the mile-and-a-half-long Copano Causeway, visitors coming from south of Copano Bay, such as from Corpus Christi, had to drive many miles inland to get around the body of water and get to the Big Tree.

The Fumble

The Broncos then took the lead on a long drive that ended with a 20-yard touchdown pass from quarterback John Elway to running back Sammy Winder, making it 38–31 with 6 minutes left.

Union busting

In 1980, the author of Confessions of a Union Buster named Martin J. Levitt reported that he conducted a counter-organizing drive at a nursing home in Sebring, Ohio.

WOLX-FM

(Moore and Elliott were previously teamed with longtime WOLX station personality Fletcher Keyes Fletch, who left the station in August 2010.) National voices include midday personality Ken Merson (voicetracked from Baltimore, MD), afternoon drive host Willie B (voicetracked from Entercom's Memphis cluster), and nationally-syndicated host Tom Kent at night.

Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory

It is bordered by Lake Burley Griffin to the north, Commonwealth Avenue and Capital Hill to the east, Adelaide Avenue and the Cotter Road to the south, and Scrivener Dam, Lady Denman Drive and part of the Molonglo River to the west.


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