Posted on 06/17/2017 4:49:03 PM PDT by drewh
I’m in!
The BEST part of a Drive In...
The Back Seat!
Wow! Some great Americana still exists!
There are still two drive-in theaters operating in our neck of the woods. The Skyline near Shelton and the Rodeo near Port Orchard (western WA).
When I was a teenager my friends and I figured out we could drive our small cars diagonally through the exit of the local drive-in and the wheels would just fit between the two sets of tire spikes blocking each lane. As soon as the last feature started the box office would close and in we went. Fun times.
We have a drive-in our town. They couldn’t show first run movies because of competition to the megaplex of 6 screens. They did a study and found that 94 percent of patrons were out of the area, and were granted first run status. They mortgaged their house and upgraded to digital. A real success story, and they are very busy.
Right down the street from me in Georgetown, Indiana is the Georgetown Drive-In...still going strong!!
I love the old drive in movies. Circa 1965 with a date in my 1958 GMC pickup. Dammit, pickups did not have a back seat back then. On occasion we actually watched the movie. If I was lucky my grandfather would let me use his 1960 Buick Le Sabre. It had a back seat the size of Dallas.
I miss those days. The popcorn was good also. I do not think we every finished a bag of it.
That’s fantastic! Here’s to many more years of success!
I’d love to attend a drive-in again. Good place to show off and see classic cars.
Hmmm. I thought the last functioning drive-in theatre closed about a decade ago. IIRC, it was in Califonia.
Here's the USA Today link:
You would not have been able to do that at the MoonLite
Drive-In Theater in Moorhead, MN or the StarLite Drive-In
Theater in Fargo, ND. I worked at them in the summer of 1970
and parked my car by the exit. I flashed my lights to any car trying to drive in that way. None ever got through!!
The previous year I worked as a painter/maintenance person at the StarLite. What great jobs. A husband and wife managed both; my first bosses-I have never had any better.
The Night of the Living Dead is the one I remember the most.
It was scheduled for only a few days, but was so popular, it stayed for about 10 days.
I vaguely remember seeing South Pacific in a drive-in theater. The fat lady dying in the storm scared me lol, I was very young.
How about my
1959 Two-Door Ford Station Wagon
Watching Clockwork Orange at the
Campus Drive-In here in SanDiego
With Sharon!
I watched many movies in my old Galaxy 500.
Sadly the two drive-ins in my area re now a Lowe’s hardware store and a massive empty lot.
Mom and dad put us in PJs, and spread blankets in the back of the station wagon because we would never make it through the movie, and honestly for me it was more fun eating popcorn and people watching, or watching Star Wars with no sound playing on another screen across the lot!
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