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Posted on 04/26/2025 6:04:20 PM PDT by DallasBiff
In the 21st century, Americans are enamored with outdoor life. They seem to think that the “au naturel” way of life is quite magical. Did you realize that a type of movie theater was a forerunner of this out-of-doors magic nearly 100 years ago? And, yes my friends, the drive-in theater was an American invention. What a novel idea — a whole group of people could casually view a movie/movies from the privacy of their own vehicles, parked with many others under a star-filled sky
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Have fun its saturday.
Bring back Drive-ins and the birth rate will go back up..................
A car was basically a living room couch on wheels.
Small world. I also saw “Willard” at a drive-in... long, long time ago.
We still have a drive-in with double screens in our small town. They did a study. Only 3 percent of the patrons were from town. The others were from throughout the state.
There was a lumber yard along the back fence of our local Drive-in. We would ride our bikes down, climb on the stacks of lumber and watch the show. The tricky part was climbing over the fence and turning up enough of the speakers to full volume so we could hear it.
Big American cars, dark drive ins. Date night.
“Bring back Drive-ins and the birth rate will go back up”
You can’t have drive-ins with our current demographic.
Back in the 50’s we had two.
One has a playground so the kids could wear themselves out before the movie started.
We saw Jurassic Park as a first run movie at a drive-in with a 7 year old, 32 years ago. We still talk about it, it was great!
That drive-in is now a multiplex.
There used to always be a little playground next to the concession stand.
We had one drive-in that had all night movies once a month. Loved the concession stand fries and burgers. Miss those days!
We still have one in my area.
Back in the good old days, the wife & I used to attend those a lot. They had certain advantages over the indoor theatre.
My family with four kids used to go to Drive In Movies frequently. One evening, we went to see a movie with James Mason in it. My Mom loved seeing films with either James Mason or his sister, Pamela Mason in them. She thought they were both so dignified and so British.
Turns out this was a movie called Lolita.
After the first 20 minutes, Mom said she had made a mistake.
Seems this movie was “Too Grown Up” for us kids to see.
Suddenly, my Dad was taking the speaker and the heater out of his window, and before you know it, we were leaving the drive in. I complained a little, because I had been promised a double dip of butter pecan ice cream, and hadn’t got one yet. We picked up a box of Neopolitan ice cream at a grocery store and ate it at home. She didn’t want to talk about that movie or even James Mason for the rest of the evening.
“There used to always be a little playground next to the concession stand.”
We had a big one. Wider than the screen in the area in front of the screen where it was too close to park.
All the usual equipment. Slides, jungle bars, merry-go-round.
No grass. Just dirt.
My ex dated the Lolita actress Sue Lyon.
She was staying with relatives and he was fixed up with her.
WHy not?...............
There is still one open In the summer here.
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