(High-tech) Drive-In Theater Coming to Fort Worth

NBC5DFW ^ | 02/22/2012 | Andrew Tanielian

[BuckeyeTexan]

Get ready for some retro entertainment because the drive-in theater is returning to Cowtown.

The Tarrant Regional Water District gave Coyote Theaters the go ahead Tuesday to develop a drive-in theater along the Trinity River just south of La Grave Field.

"We are producing the first urban drive-in right now in the U.S.," said J.D. Granger Trinity River Development Director.

It’ll have digital projectors and ways to listen through your car or smart phones. The tech will allow it to be the first drive-in in the country to offer first run movies simultaneously in both English and Spanish.

There will also be more than one way to watch movies on the four screens.

"We’re going to have cabanas where you can watch from cabanas instead of your car. There’s ways to watch if you were going to ride your bike or in Fort Worth’s case ride your horse," said Coyote Theaters CEO Brady Wood.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Get the ambulance! I think he broke his f***in neck!

[smokingfrog]

Ever go to the drive in when it's raining or 90° outside?

[BfloGuy]

Think back ... what was the first drive-in movie you ever saw?

Mom put us all in our pajamas, put down the back seats in the '57 Ford Country Sedan 'Del Rio' (2 door wagon with sliding rear windows) and backed into the parking spot so we could all revel in that Hollywood masterpiece, "Operation Petticoat." Dad spent the evening at the American Legion Hall.

[TXnMA]

Lol! I remember backing our ‘57 Ford Ranch Wagon in like that — but I’m quite sure it wasn’t my Mom in the back with me... ‘-}

[Ditto]

Don’t forget the 1960 Rambler station wagons-the seat folded down so one had 6 feet or so of flat surface.

I never had the pleasure of going to a drive in in a Rambler, but just going from 40 year old memories of what could have happened.............................

But the old '56 Olds served its purpose quite well. ;~))