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2021-04-19 22:36:40 GMT2021-04-20 06:36:40(Beijing Time) Xinhua English by Julia Pierrepont III LOS ANGELES, April 19 (Xinhua) After a more-than-one-year COVID-19 pandemic which is still ravaging across the United States, California, particularly the Los Angeles area became home to the latest movie craze: drive-in movie theaters. Drive-ins, where customers watch movies in their cars on huge screens outdoors, is a distinctly America lifestyle innovation that is the marriage of two of America s favorite pastimes: movies and cars. Now of course, during the COVID-19 pandemic, drive-ins offer one more thing: safety, which is still a big concern for Americans as infection cases and hospitalizations are still increasing in some areas and variants continue to spread. ....
The Mission Tiki Drive-In Theater in Montclair has been showing movies outdoors since 1956. This year, the venue has seen a huge uptick in business as moviegoers hungry to see films in a theater flocked to the outdoor venue 35 miles east of Los Angeles. The 27-acre property was sold for development last year, but uncertain times have staved off the final curtain for a bit longer. We spoke with 73-year-old Frank Huttinger, CEO of DeAnza Land and Leisure, which has owned and operated drive-in theaters around Los Angeles for more than 70 years. How’s business? We had a very good summer and we had to figure out what to do in the fall. We didn’t have much to play outside of a couple movies from the major studios, so we blended independent films with repertory during the summer, and after school started, repertory didn’t work anymore so we looked for more from independents. ....