{"id":164694,"date":"2026-04-13T18:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164694\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T18:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T18:36:07","slug":"usa-today-nominates-shankweilers-drive-in-theatre-for-nations-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164694\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today nominates Shankweiler&#8217;s Drive-In Theatre for nation&#8217;s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lehigh Valley drive-in theater is once again in the running for the country\u2019s best this year.<\/p>\n<p>USA Today nominated Shankweiler\u2019s Drive-In Theatre as part of its 10BEST Readers\u2019 Choice Awards, a Shankweiler\u2019s news release announced. The drive-in placed second in the contest last year and fifth in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such a huge honor to be nominated for the third year in a row,\u201d co-owner Matthew McClanahan said in the release. \u201cWe were thrilled to be voted 2nd last year and can\u2019t wait to see what happens now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Online daily voting is available until noon on May 11, <a href=\"https:\/\/10best.usatoday.com\/awards\/best-drive-in-theater\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 10BEST webpage said<\/a>, and the 10 winners will be announced May 20.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey, on June 6, 1933, and by the 1950s, there were more than 4,000 drive-in theaters in the United States. The rise of home entertainment led to the decline of the classic American drive-in, and there are currently fewer than 350 in operation,\u201d the webpage said. \u201cStill, this great American pastime is undergoing a revival, with many drive-ins converting to digital projection and offering innovative concessions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Located at 4540 Shankweiler Road in North Whitehall Township, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/04\/09\/lehigh-valley-insiders-guide-enjoy-classics-new-releases-with-these-local-movie-theaters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shankweiler\u2019s<\/a> opened in 1934 and is the country\u2019s oldest operating drive-in theater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Lehigh Valley drive-in theater is once again in the running for the country\u2019s best this year. USA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164695,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,1681,289,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-164694","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-things-to-do","13":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}