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MissMargoChanning — 5 years ago(June 27, 2020 04:00 AM)
I miss them. So nice! You could bring everything with you!
Sadly, I no longer smoke cigarettes or pot. If I drink, I have a drink at home.
If I make out, it's much more comfy on the couch, floor, or bed in front of any one of our big screen TVs!
Still???? Where else can you go to commune with others these days at a safe distance???
SHIT! All of the fun has even been sucked out of the Drive-In!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night! -
Aj_goodfellow — 5 years ago(June 27, 2020 07:04 AM)
The first film I ever watched on the big screen was Popeye in 1980 at a drive in theater with my family.
In recent years I have gone but not a lot. One of my friends lives really close to a drive in. I think it's good if you're bringing kids or your dogs or something. Or are doing drugs and drinking alcohol. Or you plan to get knocked up that night.
Otherwise I prefer the luxury theaters with limited seating and reclining chairs. -
phantomparticle — 5 years ago(June 27, 2020 08:10 AM)
Saw my first drive-in movie around 1955, at the age of 8. Still remember what I saw (because they were spooky),
The Snow Creature
and
Dementia
, which everyone in
The Blob
was watching under it's alternate title,
Daughter of Horror.
Visited the Passion Pit a lot when I learned to drive. If romance was your intention, you parked in the back row and afterward looked for a spot closer to the screen.
Some families would come in pick up trucks, park them backwards, set up folding chairs and have a picnic with blankets for the kids, food and even the family dog.
If one of the guys was short of money, we'd stick him in the trunk and get him in for free. As a joke among ourselves, we did this once at a $1 a-carload drive-in.
Some of them had paved roads.
One drive-in was close to the river near two sets of railroad tracks. Sometimes the mosquitoes would eat you alive and you had to close the windows in hot weather. Now and then two trains would pass the place going in opposite directions, blowing their whistles. Everyone would blow their horns in response and start yelling like crazy. Then we'd all settle down to finish the movie.
In the 1960's, we had a half dozen drive-in theaters within a twenty mile radius of our town. Today there is only one left. About ten years ago I took a drive to see the remains of those that had shut down by the 1980's. Mostly weeds, broken pavement and, in one, the shell of a concession stand. Even that is probably gone by now.
Great memories.
And This, Too, Shall Pass Away
