We luckily still have a couple drive-ins around San Diego and it’s so much fun once in a while to still go. Something about getting out of the car and walking to the stand for hot dogs and sodas that still seems so right. I’m not even that old, 42, but growing up in Buffalo we would hit the drive-in a few times a year and I still remember those times fondly. I remember seeing Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid at the drive-in. My GF in only 24, had never been to a drive-in until she met me, and doesn’t get why I bug her to go to the drive-in once in a while but I think she is actually enjoying the drive-in now and just doesn’t want to admit it.
Thanks for that post. You’re right, there was something to that getting out of your car and going to the concession stand for a snack.
Goodness, I have not seen a drive-in theater for many years. I saw an old abandoned one in Fairfax County, Virginia, where I lived at the time, in the 1970s.