On this day in 1938, Miami, Florida received its first drive-in theater. Admission was 35 cents per person, 10 cents pricier than the very first drive-in in Camden, New Jersey, which opened June 6, 1933.
Mittie Young Shaw made this String Quilt in Miami, Florida. The Wyoming Quilt Project documentation entered for this quilt estimates the date to be around 1954 “because of the fabrics, which are 1950s home decorating fabrics, the date on the newspaper ad on the foundation, and the car styles and hair styles shown in the newspaper pictures.” The owner of the quilt is Shaw’s great grandson and he wrote of her, “[she] lived through the depression years and raised her three grandchildren after her daughter died–never wasted anything–thus this scrap quilt.”
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Source:
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/miami-drive-in-debuts
Posted by Amy E. Milne
Executive Director, Quilt Alliance
amy.milne@quiltalliance.org