Yet he and his friends managed to scare up fun, picking up odd jobs for drive-in and burger money, and in Mr. Boehner's case, grooming.
The teak-coloured wooden garages will be open for business from Monday for drive-in customers in a country where prostitution has been legal since 1942 on the outskirts of the Swiss city.
Mr. Last's puzzle was a terrific mix of both nostalgic entries, like PASSION PIT for "Drive-in theater, in old slang," and newer entries, like the online television streaming Web site HULU and, for those of us who are not software gurus, OPEN SOURCE, clued as "Like some freely available software".
But before people move in, the city has allowed the experimental artistic collective DOK to use the site for concerts, an improvised beach, and for drive-in cinema evenings during which a stunt car jumps through a caravan and a piano is thrown off a factory roof by way of an intermission.
In a long and varied life, he owned movie houses in Chicago in the pre-television era; was active in the Yiddish theater; had a hand in promoting the new postwar craze for drive-in movie theaters; promoted high school football games; and from 1946 to 1951 was a co-producer of the radio program "Famous Names," with Mike Wallace as host.
They were produced as double features for drive-ins.
(A parallel sequence, included here, was shot for drive-ins).
The major studio horror boom of the 30s was long over; it was simply fodder for drive-ins and grindhouses.
Like many summer car pictures before them, Mr. Howard's were created for drive-ins, a theatrical circuit that now barely exists.
There is no publicly available box-office data for drive-ins, but West Wind, a seven-theater chain centered in California, says 2011 ticket and concession revenue was up 43 percent compared with three years ago.
