| Wellfleet Drive-In and Cinemas | |
| Address: | 51 State Highway, Route 6 |
| City: | Wellfleet, Massachusetts |
| Country: | United States |
| Owner: | Spring Brook Center |
| Type: | Drive-in theater |
| Opened: | 1957 |
The Wellfleet Drive-In Theater, the only drive-in theater on Cape Cod, located in Wellfleet, Massachusetts along U.S. Route 6,[1] near the Massachusetts Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. The complex offers first-run double features in season, with other attractions such as indoor cinemas, a flea market,[2] a miniature golf course,[3] and restaurants.
The Drive-In is one of the venues for the annual Provincetown International Film Festival in Provincetown, Massachusetts .[4] Frommer's lists the Drive-In as one of the "500 Places to See Before They Disappear"[5] and Travel and Leisure selected it as a Top Ten Retro Escape.[6]
Its original owners, John Jentz and Charlie Zehnder, opened the drive-in on July 3, 1957.[7] It has a 100feetx44feetft (xft) screen, with sound provided by both an FM stereo signal and the original individual monaural speakers that can be attached to a car's window.[5] The mini-golf features obstacles that date back to 1961.[3] The cinema was built in the 1980s; according to Eleanor Hazen, its owner at the time, one of the reasons the cinema was built is that film distributors started refusing to allow drive-ins to show first-run feature films.[8]