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DIED. WAYNE MCALLISTER, 92, West Coast architect whose flamboyant hotels and drive-in restaurants monumentalized America's car culture; in Arcadia, Calif. The neon gulch of casino classics he carved in Las Vegas included the El Rancho and Sands. In Los Angeles, one of his Bob's Big Boy eateries is a state landmark...
...recognized by a jock like Bobby is a big deal to the kid, who beams. It is part of Bobby's charm. It brings him fame. Bobby climbs into a friend's Oldsmobile, with a large speaker blaring rap music in the backseat. They're going to a drive-in for chili dogs and draft root beer. As the car pulls away from the school, Bobby reaches under his seat and lights a Marlboro. You gotta do more than play football to be cool nowadays. Unfortunately, he knows...
Redstone hails from tenements on Boston's west side. His father was a small-time entrepreneur who opened one of the first drive-in theaters in the country in the 1930s. Redstone had the same scrappiness and a Harvard education, and turned a drive-in into a bustling movie-house company called National Amusements, which grew to 1,200 theaters. He is often credited with inventing the concept of the multiplex. Something of a late bloomer, Redstone didn't hit the big time until 1987, when at age 64 he put virtually all the assets of his company at risk...
...waterworks operator for a rural township water authority. By night, he manages Twirly Top, a popular local drive-in restaurant...
...became involved with Twirly Top while he was working as a self-employed timber contractor, not long after his departure from Cambridge. It was there that he met Linda Sedell, now his fiancee, at the drive-in window...