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.
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.
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.
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.
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 is still one open In the summer here.
Wait,,, they had movies?? Who knew?
Firs tmlvie I was ever taken to was at a drive in and I’m sad to report that it was “the sound of music” lol- was mother’s choice e lol... BUT we did later get to go see star wars at the drive in, so it was worth it lol.
For metal detector folks, the old parking lots can be rewarding sort of- some old rare-ish coins can be found in them. But lots and lots of pull tabs too which is a pain.
I don't remember how old I was when I did finally go to the drive-in, but one of the first times I remember taking my two sons to the drive-in was to see "Day of the Animals" in 1977.
We have a few of them in central PA. “The Point” is not far from Bloomsburg. There’s one in the Poconos.
The last time my parents took the kids to the drive-in was to see the Muppet Movie. Unfortunately, on the other screen, they were playing Caligula and my mother couldn’t stop us from paying the other movie any attention. So, we left early.
The drive-in was one of my favorite ways to spend a summer evening when I was a kid: the playground, the neon, the short features and intermission reels, the snack bar food, the pop and crunch as tires rolled over gravel entering and leaving the lot. I loved it all. My aunt lived with us for a year when she attended cosmetology school, and she took me to see Elvis and Frankie and Annette movies. I also saw “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly” and “Patton” at the drive-in.
By the time I was old enough to date, the drive-ins had either closed or had begun showing BOLD X-RATED ADULT HITS!!!, so I had to resort to other venues for an evening out with a lady companion.
I took my kids to the Skyview in Belleville, Illinois about 30 years ago. It’s still going strong. The remaining one in my area is the 49er in Valparaiso, Indiana. I might have to get over there one of these summer evenings,
The first drive in movie that I remember seeing was 101 Dalmatians at the Midway Drive In located in Tucson Arizona.
I saw the James Bond Double Feature at a Drive-In.
“Dr. No” and “From Russia, With Love”
This may have happened in 1970.