Revellers could also see a wooden bridge, cabins and live monkeys at the elaborate al fresco theater after it opened in 1896

Pan Am’s marine air terminal in Miami at Dinner Key, pictured in 1932, was privately built by the airline and on most days, eager spectators vastly outnumbered the actual passengers

Pan Am was the launch customer of the Boeing 707, pictured in 1960 - the first jetliner in history to be commercially successful

Pan Am to run commercial flights between the United States and Asia successfully, landing rights in Shanghai - pictured under a Pan Am Douglas DC-2 in 1936

Jimmy Carter, Age 18

Lyndon Johnson, Age 18

James Garfield, Age 16

In the late 60s as colour television became the ultimate status symbol for aspirational consumers and movie theatres offered an appealing alternative to drive-ins

Herbert Hoover, Age 25

Harry Truman, Age 22 And 33

Gerald Ford, Age 18 And 20

George W. Bush, Age 21

George W. Bush, Age 19

George H. W. Bush, Age 18

From its inception in 1927, Pan American Airways single-handedly revolutionized air travel and pioneered a new era of commercial flight. Pictured, one of its Boeing 377s photographed in 1949

Franklin Roosevelt, Age 18

Dwight Eisenhower, Age 25 and 29

During their 50s heyday there were over 4,600 drive-in movie theatres across the States.

Drive-in movie theatres first sprung up in the 30s. Here motorists during this decade watch films from the back seat of their vehicles at a drive-in in Los Angeles

Drive-in movie theatres date back to 1933 when Richard Hollingshead Jr first opened a screen in Camden, New Jersey

Calvin Coolidge, Between 19 And 23 Years

By 1932, the airline had upgraded to Sikorsky S-40 planes, which could carry 38 passengers and was marginally faster with a speed of 115 mph

Bill Clinton, Age 22

Barak Obama at the age of 18

As theaters found ways to keep their punters cool and cinemas arrived, performances returned inside during the Great Depression. New York Theatre's Jardin de Paris

An Opened Bookmobile, 1925

Against an empty skyline, a parade of vehicles line up to buy tickets to the evening spectacle

Abraham Lincoln, Late 1930s

A uniformed drive-in theatre attendant hands a clip-on speaker to the driver of convertible while the car's other passengers watch. The picture was taken in New York, in early 1950

A theater known as Cherry Blossom Grove in 1901. It opened in 1895 as the Olympia Theater