[rlmorel]

Ah yes. I loved the Drive In, I still go once every few years. (forgive me-I know this thread is about Looney Tunes...:) It just got my mind to wandering...

Back in the Seventies, my parents had a Finnish exchange student who stayed at our house. Very nice, very smart, and became one of our family.

The last time she visited before my mother passed on, I dropped by during the visit to say hello, and met her young son who may have been ten or twelve.

She said that she was trying to think of something completely American to have him see or experience, the light bulb went on in my head, and I said "I have just the thing!"

Drive in Movie.

So, we looked to see what was playing (there were two screens, two movies at each one!) One of the main features was "The Simpson's Movie" and with no hesitation, they both chose that one! Heh, now THAT'S where people around the world get their impressions of America!

They were both delighted with the whole experience. The only thing missing was the speakers you used to have to put on the car window...:) (Having it on the car radio IS an improvement, however! But for nostalgic purposes...

I love Drive In's. The bad, bad fried food and the smell from the Snack Bar...all the stale looking commercials for local businesses, intertwined with the absolutely tacky, immortal, and delightful cartoons imploring you to visit the Snack Bar!

And while they were showing those, they often had a small playground right up underneath the screen with kids. The sun has just gone down...there is still light, and you can hear the kids and see the swings going back and forth, occasionally punctuated by the headlights of cars on the screen and they enter on their way to a parking space to view the movie from.

Then, when I was a teenager and young adult, going to the Drive-In, hiding kids in the trunk, setting out the old aluminum yard chairs with the green and white plastic webbing...

Boy, that makes me very nostalgic. Those were good times.

[GOPJ]

Wonderful memories rlmorel - thanks for sharing....

[mass55th]

We didn’t have a car when I was growing up, so I never experienced the drive-in until I was much older and married. The last drive-in theater here was demolished about 4-5 years ago. The land was sold to a car dealership. Me and my youngest son who was in his early 40’s at the time would go there. They had two screens. One was for kids movies, and the other for those who wanted to see the current movies. Sometimes they’d have double-features, or triple features.

[abb]

Ha! Last month we were at DisneyWorld and had lunch here. Clips from scifi movies, cartoons, etc. Great flashback for me.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g34515-d491910-Reviews-Sci_Fi_Dine_In_Theater-Orlando_Florida.html

Sci-Fi Dine-In Theater

One of the movies I can recall vividly seeing at our local drive-in was The Longest Day.

[sparklite2]

I would take my wife and infant son to the drive-in
in Atlanta for such shows as “Prison Women in Chains.”
My wife put up with a lot. LOL

[Bonemaker]

You nailed it! A lot of us could write similar stories.

[Fiji Hill]

We frequented our local drive-ins—especially after we acquired a 1958 Edsel Villager station wagon that would allow the kids to sleep while the parents could watch a movie without having to hire a baby sitter.

Before the show, those with spotlights on their cars would shine the lights at the screen. We had a spotlight on our ‘46 De Soto and our ‘49 Ford.

Movies that I saw at the drive-in included “Oklahoma!” “Bell, Book & Candle,” “The Littlest Hobo,” “The Son of Robin Hood,” “The Diary of Anne Frank,” “South Pacific” and “Bambi.” One of the last films I saw in a drive-in was “Bonnie & Clyde,” which I saw in the fall of 1969.

[V K Lee]

Prime property prices rising, and Daylight Savings Time. Both were the demons which killed Drive In Theaters. Where did they plan to store those many speakers?

Last Drive In Movie seen - “Clash of the Titans” (1981) with Burgess Meredith
Like the rotary phone, drive in movies have disappeared.

[LibWhacker]

Boy, that makes me very nostalgic. Those were good times.

Especially getting horse-collared by a speaker wire. Didn't know they had switched to radio. They didn't have drive-ins where I moved after I got out of the service... Right, and by that time most of the old drive-ins had been torn down, it seems. Those were the days! Fun days. Sometimes painful days, lol.

[V K Lee]

BRIAN'S DRIVE IN THEATER

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Isn’t that wienie supposed to go into the bun?

[no-to-illegals]

Thank you for the memories. The last drive-in in my area closed twenty plus years ago. Sure do miss those double features and family evenings at the movies. The loony tunes were great too.