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Nostalgia, Value Spur Interest in Drive-Ins across the Country.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2003
By Brian MacQuarrie, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 14--WELLFLEET, Mass.-- Bundled up in the rear of their Chevy Trailblazer, hatch opened to face a 100-foot-wide movie screen, Rob Biernbaum and Mary Burdick munch on heaps of fried food and playfully pat their two pet dogs, a frisky beagle and a hyperkinetic pug.
The night's two first-run feature films, "The Italian Job," followed by "Anger Management," are about to unfold before them in the darkening twilight, and the Rochester, N.Y., couple look like they have just hit the lottery.
"We love drive-ins," said Burdick, 31, who had never been to the Wellfleet Drive-In before a cool, starry night earlier this week. "We can bring a blanket and pillow and relax...
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