{{Short description|Theater in Wellfleet, Massachusetts}} {{Infobox theatre | name = Wellfleet Drive-In and Cinemas | image = Wellfleet drive in theater entrance.jpg | image_size = 250 | image_alt = | caption = Main entrance of the theater in 2008 | image_map = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = | pushpin_map_caption = | address = 51 State Highway, Route 6 | city = Wellfleet, Massachusetts | country = United States | architect = | owner = Spring Brook Center | capacity = | type = Drive-in theater | opened = 1957 | reopened = | years_active = | rebuilt = | closed = | demolished = | other_names = | production = | current_use = | website = }} {{Coord|41|52|38.88|N|69|59|30.88|W|display=title}} The '''Wellfleet Drive-In Theater''', the only drive-in theater on Cape Cod, located in Wellfleet, Massachusetts along U.S. Route 6,<ref name="Drive-In">{{cite web|url=http://www.wellfleetcinemas.com/drive-in-theatre |title= Drive-In Theatre |publisher= Spring Brook Center |accessdate=2010-11-02}}</ref> near the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. The complex offers first-run double features in season, with other attractions such as indoor cinemas, a flea market,<ref name="Market">{{cite web|url= http://www.wellfleetcinemas.com/flea-market |title= Flea Market |publisher=Spring Brook Center | accessdate=2010-11-02}}</ref> a miniature golf course,<ref name="minigolf">{{cite web|url= http://www.wellfleetcinemas.com/miniature-golf |title= Mini-Golf/Ice Cream |publisher=Spring Brook Center, Inc| accessdate=2010-11-02}}</ref> and restaurants.
The Drive-In is one of the venues for the annual Provincetown International Film Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts .<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.ptownfilmfest.org/venues.php | title= Screening Venues | publisher= Provincetown International Film Festival| accessdate=2010-11-02}}</ref> Frommer's lists the Drive-In as one of the "500 Places to See Before They Disappear"<ref name="fodor"> {{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=xMDPksxFhCYC |title= Frommer's 500 Places to See Before They Disappear | page=440 | first1=Holly |last1= Hughes |first2=Larry |last2= West |publisher= Frommer's| accessdate= 2010-11-02| year=2008 |isbn= 0-470-18986-X }}</ref> and ''Travel and Leisure'' selected it as a Top Ten Retro Escape.<ref name="America">{{cite web|url=http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-best-retro-escapes| title=America's Best Retro Escapes|last=Savino|first=Charlotte|date= April 2009|publisher=American Express Publishing Corporation|accessdate=2009-06-14}}</ref>
==History== Its original owners, John Jentz and Charlie Zehnder, opened the drive-in on July 3, 1957.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080711/LIFE/807110301 | title= Nostalgia featured showing at Wellfleet Drive-In |last=Pierson |first= Elspeth |date= July 11, 2008 |publisher= Cape Cod Times |accessdate=2009-11-02}}</ref> It has a {{convert|100|x|44|ft|adj=on}} screen, with sound provided by both an FM stereo signal<ref name="Drive-In" /> and the original individual monaural speakers that can be attached to a car's window.<ref name="fodor"/> The mini-golf features obstacles that date back to 1961.<ref name="minigolf"/> The cinema was built in the 1980s; according to Eleanor Hazen, its owner at the time, one of the reasons the cinema was built is that film distributors started refusing to allow drive-ins to show first-run feature films.<ref name="segrave92"> {{cite book |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=m10A0dwrXvAC |title= Drive-in theaters - a History from their Inception in 1933 | page=182 | first1=Kerry |last1= Segrave |publisher= McFarland | accessdate= 2010-11-02| year=1992 |isbn= 0-89950-752-2}}</ref>
==See also== * List of drive-in theaters * {{portal-inline|Companies}} * {{portal-inline|Theatre}} * {{portal-inline|Film}}
==References== {{Reflist|2}}
==External links== *[http://www.wellfleetdrivein.com/ Wellfleet Cinemas]
Category:Drive-in theaters in the United States Category:Cinemas and movie theaters in Massachusetts Category:Wellfleet, Massachusetts Category:1957 establishments in Massachusetts Category:Entertainment companies established in 1957