The Ford-Wyoming Drive-In: Cars, Candy & Canoodling in the Motor City (Landmarks)

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In a while after World War II, three Dearborn brothers bought a vacant parcel to build a drive-in theater. Local groups opposed them, fearing this type of place would elicit immoral behavior.” However the Clark circle of relatives persevered to peer its movie palace change into a Metro Detroit mainstay, website hosting celebrities, rock stars and a never-ending line of families with kids in footie pajamas. A handshake transferred ownership to movie magnate Charles Shafer and his business partner, Bill Clark, who expanded the theater to an enormous nine screens. But blockbusters and hordes of teens couldn’t mitigate the effects of Detroit’s decline, auto company bankruptcies and Michigan’s economic malaise. Regardless of it all, the mighty Ford-Wyoming kept the movies showing, bringing just a little of Hollywood glamour to the gritty Motor City.”

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