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Drive-ins by Joan Liftin (Hardcover, 1999) - Brand New & Sealed
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- Original Language
- English
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Drive-Ins
- Item Height
- 241mm
- Publisher
- Trolley Books
- Item Width
- 203mm
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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It's a summer night on the plains, a night for dreamers and lovers, a night for the drive-in movies. In Chickasa, Oklahoma, and Turkey, Texas, Main Street is dark and shuttered. Out on the prairie, on land that only tornados and buzzards could love, there flickers the first reel of the movie. This is the boundless nostalgia of the drive-in, of the serene confidence of the United States in the Fifties, when Korea was a far-off land and Vietnam wasn't on the map; General Dwight D Eisenhower came to the White House. Edward Hopper captured the spirit of the age. It was remembered again in The Last Picture Show, and by the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, when he sang My Home Town. There were 6,000 drive-ins Across the Union then. There are 547 now. Idaho has The Spud , Texas had The Trail , and even New York City has the walk-in show in Bryant Park. The drive-in was born in 1933 in Camden, New Jersey, when an enterprising gas station owner projected a movie on his wall to entertain impatient customers. Since then the drive-in has had its ups and downs, latterly torn down to be replaced by shopping malls and tatty developments. But that zeitgeist will not die, and in Drive-Ins Joan Liftin has
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Trolley Books
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9781904563198
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Book Title
Drive-Ins
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Number of Pages
128 Pages
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241mm
Item Width
203mm
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United Kingdom
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