# Wellfleet Drive-In Theater

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{{Short description|Theater in Wellfleet, Massachusetts}}
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| name                = Wellfleet Drive-In and Cinemas
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| caption             = Main entrance of the theater in 2008
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| address             = 51 State Highway, [Route 6](/source/U.S._Route_6_in_Massachusetts)
| city                = [Wellfleet, Massachusetts](/source/Wellfleet%2C_Massachusetts)
| country             = United States
| architect           = 
| owner               = Spring Brook Center
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| type                = [Drive-in theater](/source/Drive-in_theater)
| opened              = 1957
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The '''Wellfleet Drive-In Theater''', the only [drive-in theater](/source/drive-in_theater) on [Cape Cod](/source/Cape_Cod), located in [Wellfleet, Massachusetts](/source/Wellfleet%2C_Massachusetts) along [U.S. Route 6](/source/U.S._Route_6_in_Massachusetts),<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](/source/Massachusetts_Audubon_Society)'s Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.  The complex offers first-run [double feature](/source/double_feature)s in season, with other attractions such as indoor cinemas, a [flea market](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Provincetown_International_Film_Festival) in [Provincetown, Massachusetts](/source/Provincetown%2C_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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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 film](/source/feature_film)s.<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](/source/List_of_drive-in_theaters)
* {{portal-inline|Companies}}
* {{portal-inline|Theatre}}
* {{portal-inline|Film}}

==References==
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==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

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