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Bengies Drive-In Theatre

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Bengies was opened on June 6, 1956 by Frog Mortar Corporation. It was designed by Jack K. Vogel as one of three drive-ins in the Vogel Theatre chain, and is still owned by the Vogel family, and as of 2009 showed entirely
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Its screen is the largest remaining in the United States, measuring 52 feet (16 m) high and 120 feet (37 m) wide.
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movie viewing and other events, and kept open after the summer ended; the theater rented in-car heaters to patrons.
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Moonlight Magic: Celebrating 40 Years of Motion Picture Enchantment at Baltimore's Bengies Drive-In Theater
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Motion Picture Exhibition in Baltimore: An Illustrated History and Directory of Theaters, 1895–2004
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This article about a building or structure in Maryland is a
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Drive-In Theaters: A History From Their Inception in 1933
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Buildings and structures in Baltimore County, Maryland
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Middle River
MD
Coordinates
39°20′10″N 76°24′14″W / 39.3360°N 76.4038°W / 39.3360; -76.4038
bengies.com
drive-in theater
Middle River, Maryland
Baltimore
movie screen
double features
2020 COVID-19 pandemic
socially distanced



"Bengies Drive-In"
ISBN
0786426306


ISBN
9780786422906
"Bengies Drive-In awarded $ 838,000 in suit against Royal Farms"



"Sunset falls on a historic season for the drive-in"

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