Richard Milton Hollingshead, Jr., was born in Riverton, Burlington, New Jersey back in 1900 to Richard Sr., and Emma. Again, I do not have any information about his education or early years. In the 1930’s he worked as a general sales manager at his father’s auto parts company, Whiz Auto Products.
He had an idea about something that would place him in the history books. After experimenting several different designs, he applied for a patent in 1932, he received patent number 1,909,537 in 1933. His first operation opened in Camden, New Jersey in 1933. He sold his first operation in 1935. Because he had trouble collecting royalties in 1937, he filed a civil suit. In court, his patent was ruled invalid in 1950.
While you may not know his name you surely know his patent. For he was the first person to invent the drive-in-theater.
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