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,
In my day X wasn’t porn.
Ratings were G, M and X.