Wanna talk about drive-in movies?

We did drive-in eateries:
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Fond memories.
The Drive-In.
AKA The Passion Pit.

I remember picking up a date and making small talk with her dad while I waited for her. (Girls were NEVER ready when you came to pick them up. It was part of the game. They had to make an 'entrance' or something)
"Where you kids going tonight?"
"The movie."
"Drive-in or walk-in?"
"Uh...the drive-in."
Cold stare.
Silence.
Squirm.

I'm glad there were no drive-ins in our area when my daughter was dating.

Once I forgot to take the speaker off my window and drove off.
The speaker wire broke.
I turned the speaker in at the ticket booth on the way out.
Then they attached them to the pole with steel cable.
Rip your window out.

I remember the food at the concession stand was pretty good.
A car full of popcorn smell is a good thing.

My uncle had a part interest in a drive-in and told me that the snow cones were the most profitable thing they sold.
The total cost was about 2 cents and they sold for 15.
The most expensive 'ingredient' was the paper cone.
A penny.

They had 'Dollar Nights'. Instead of charging by the person, it was a buck for the carload. We'd jam 8 or 9 kids in and fill the trunk with lawn chairs.

Once we turned the headlights off and drove IN the Exit and nobody noticed.
Free movie.

If the 'make-out' got so heavy all your windows fogged up a security guard (Passion Police) would knock on your window and yell "OK, EVERYBODY UP! I WANNA SEE HEADS!"

So...ever been to a drive-in?

As far as I know, they never had them here since I've been alive (I'm 36).

But most of them are now strip malls.
A lot were located on major thoroughfares, a 'little' out of town.
That's all prime location real estate now.

But then, Maine is different.

I loved the little amusement parks they had that you could go to for free before the movie. And the ones with the sawdust pits where you could dig for "treasure" were the best. I honestly don't think I ever found anything though.

When the previews came on and the preview was in the least bit racy or violent, my parents would make us turn our backs away from the screen so we couldn't see it. Of course, we always tried to peek. I remember one that had a woman in a black and red negligee who, I think, was being murdered. I felt so wicked because I sneeked a peek when I wasn't supposed to. Interesting that I should remember that 45 years later, isn't it?

I was introduced to Sidney Poitier movies at the drive in - my parents took us to every one of his movies when we were kids and I still love him. If the movie was a kiddie movie, such as Mary Poppins, we'd be handed lawn chairs and get to set them up in front of the car.

Wonder what the parents were doing while we watched the movie??? Hmmmm??!!??

;-)

:rofl:

and it's fun! We've even taken the little nieces (4 and 11 years old) to see the movie Shrek there and they dug it so much.

It's a mall now.

:blush:


I mean yes, I have been to many Drive in movies , and NO I don't want to talk about it


I lost something VERY important at one once

<snicker>

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Or in the ashtray.

Now gone and replaced by a Wal-Mart, but in the mid-1980's, Kerrville, TX had a drive-in theater. When I was 15, I got DRUNK with some of the guys from work (a summer camp) while we watched Spring Break. :D

When I was a kid, we'd get into my uncle's mid-1960's Ford Station Wagon and watch the movie on a blanket on the hood of the car.

where they would show four movies instead of the usual two. Since High School graduation was normally on Memorial Day Sunday, the party at the drive-in on that night was always immense. The powers-that-be didn't try to fight it--they just kept a cop or two stationed on the highway outside the drive-in, and anyone who left before dawn was likely to get stopped, especially if they looked young. Inside the drive-in, though, was anything goes, with all manner of alcohol (or other substances) at your disposal.

Since the kids who had gone away to college were usually out of school by then, it was one of the best opportunities to reunite with old friends that you hadn't seen since they graduated or since you graduated. Good times.

I haven't been back to that town in a while, but I think that drive-in might be gone :(

In Oklahoma City they had a pretty cool drive in called the Winchester Drive-in, and as far as I know it's still there (it was two years ago when I moved from Oklahoma). They have this huge neon cowboy sign that waves people into the drive-in. I suppose it used to be on the edge of town, but now it's in the middle of developed land, just about five blocks from a spur of the Interstate. They showed three movies for five bucks a person--usually one second-run family-ish movie, a first-run feature, and another second-run feature for the late-night crowd. You could bring your own refreshments--you could even bring your grill, and throw some burgers on while you grab another beer from the cooler. I imagine there were the same kind of car-hopping hijinks I engaged in as a youth, but other than a few bottles on the grounds, the occasional sniff of weed, and the obligatory fogged windows, it was never really noticeable to me as an outsider.

Good times. I miss the drive in. They have one about 45 minutes away from where I live now, but I haven't been yet ...

Oh yeah.
I remember coming back to the high school bunch as a freshman in college.
I was a 'big man'.
hee

to a movie growing up-the theater was too expensive.

We were loaded into the car in our pjs and we brought our own snacks. We never bought any concessions.

And I don't remember the end of a single one of those movies.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

But it was altogether quite exciting.

I think I slept through the rest....

the previous film was the Jungle Book, or something... :hi:

Wish there were drive-ins closer to where we live.

My family went to the drive in all of the time.

There are at least two in Western Washington and are a great deal.

my favorite one in a big field is now a hideous mall!

:cry:

they personified summer!

though I missed out on the classic double-feature era of low-brow monster 'n' sexstrvaganzas. But I pulled off the classic "sneak the friends in by the trunk line" gambit, and managed a few dusk-'til-dawn festivals. The movies were things like "Krull" and "Spacehunter: Adventures In the Forbidden Zone."

I too used to be taken there in my PJs with my parents hauling a big butter-stained paper bag full of popcorn rather than opting for the expensive concession cuisine. I remember playing at a welf little playground they had beside the screen as "Concorde: Airport '79" started up.

people were more frugal, more relaxed, everything wasn't about what you bought, or what you had.

At times it seems like life now is obsessed with consumption and how much money can be spent. :(

believe it or not there is still one in operation about 45 miles from here... in the summertime mostly...

when it's hotter than hell even at 10 pm.

Yes I remember going to them as a kid...

I remember going to them with friends as a teen...

then of course, what a great place to take a date :P

as a kid piling up in the back of the station wagon, with blankets and pillows, the food was good (who knew about red dye #6)mom and dad up front, the cartoons first. then falling asleep halfway through the main feature:boring:

then as a young teen just starting to date and being allowed to go to the drive-in with a guy...and it never got past second base:loveya:

hours of necking...guys don't even have the patience for that anymore:shrug:

they want to hit a grand slam without even touching the bases:wtf:

fuckit...the dating scene is not for me. i just want to spend time with my family anymore:grouphug:

i am too country for city guys and too city for country guys:dilemma:

lets face it, i suckx(

anyway, yeah i miss the drive-in:)

to the drive in when my Dad would go out and wash the windows on the car and Mom put us in our jammies after dinner.
I will never forget we saw The Russians are Coming, The Russians are coming and Cold Turkey in a double feature one night......
We also saw It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world......
I also remember my friends sister worked at the drive in and she would take us in her car but we had to find a car to sit in to watch and hear the movie....
All I have to say is Pink Champagne, a station wagon and 2 cute guys we found :evilgrin: :evilgrin:
There is one still in lake Wallenpaupac,Pa. Have not gone to it yet.... its 2 1/2 hours away

lost

It is the weekend family destination spot, and draw thousands of patrons. They have two screens, a pizza parlor, an old fashion diner, putt putt golf, inflatables, a birthday party room, a stage, chicken barbecues on weekends, a playground, and an ice cream parlor. The business employs 80-100 teenagers a night -- my daughter is one of them. We have a summer cottage about a 1/2 mile away so we walk up there just about every Friday and Saturday night to get a pizza and ice cream.

http://www.charcoalcorral.com/

it`s been in existence for years and i think it`s one of the last ones left in all of northern illinois. it`s opening up in a few weeks for another season.what`s great about it is that it shows first run movies

One thing we did do growing up is go to the local drive-in. That was fun on a hot summer night. Never took any dates to one though.

My parents used to take us -- that was the only way I saw movies through most of my early childhood. Lots of Disney -- Apple Dumpling Gang, Herbie, One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing.

In high school it was the summer Friday event of choice. A couple of friends with pickups would take loads of us in. Lots of beer, lots of popcorn, very little recollection of what we saw.

One of my first real dates was taking a friend and two girls to a drive in. Got a speeding ticket on the way there. :-( But we popped the hatchback, kicked back with some blankets and had a good time all the same.

Maybe my favorite memory of drive ins happened when my family moved in the late '70s. We were in Denver from California and needed to stay in a motel for about a month while my folks house-shopped. Our motel room was on the back of the complex, facing a drive-in screen. If there were enough cars, we could hear the audio while the movie played. Even without the audio, we'd all gather in the motel bedroom and watch the screen every night. It was Burt Reynolds and Dom DeLuise in "The End." I must have seen that film 20 times, half with sound, half without.

Lots of great memories.

As an aside, there was a drive-in near the Pittsburgh airport that showed "adult" films. Sometimes you could get a glimpse of what was showing if you were taxiing on the right runway. I'm amazed that Allegheny Airlines didn't charge extra for that.

We went all the time, and my parents were able to get me to sleep in the backseat (sometimes we went to see child-appropriate stuff). However, the trips to the drive-in probably stopped when I refused to lay down in the backseat during "Klute." I was nine or ten at the time...