Word: drive-in
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...hard-tops (the industry term for indoor, non-drive-in theaters) built in the past two years, approximately 65 are located in shopping centers, and another 50 will probably be in operation by early 1963. General Drive-In Corp. of Boston, which helped launch the boom in drive-ins after World War II, began switching to shopping-center hard-tops when it opened one of the first in 1951 at the Framingham, Mass., Shoppers' World. It now has ten shopping-center houses flourishing from Florida to Massachusetts, and 20 more under construction or on the board...
...tragic accident, but the thing about it that most bothered Detroiters last week was the place where it happened : a drive-in. For drive-in restaurants are fast becoming the hangouts for teenagers that corner drugstores used to be-with a considerable difference. In the dark of their cars, boys and girls can do more than consume hamburgers and milkshakes, and many an adult buys liquor and brings it to a drive-in to sell at fat profits to the underaged from the back...
...Drive-in delinquency is usually not the fault of the proprietors, who sometimes find the situation impossible to control...
Last fall, the proprietor of Henry's Hamburgers, another drive-in on Detroit's northwest side, found that he and his private policeman could make no headway in ejecting a group of rowdy teen-agers who had been drinking in their cars. He called the police, who sent two squad cars, and in the resulting riot two of the policemen were knocked...
...Angeles is one large city with few records of drive-in trouble. Major reason: a 10 p.m. curfew for youngsters under...