I'm sure most of you know what this is....
Share some memories if you like... ;-)
I was very young when they got ride of ours to build a 4 lane highway, but I remember sitting on our side porch as a kid and watching the screen flicker from a couple miles away. By the time I was old enough to go, it was pretty much desolate since they had opened a two room theater in town. Shortly after it got torn down... what a shame. I'm sure some of you have some pretty awesome memories... I would love to hear about them... :-)
-Missk
The first movie I saw at drive in was Star Wars. My favorite memory would be when our pigs got out and crossed the road into the drive in. Hard to herd them back with everyone throwing popcorn and honking horns.
ReplyDeleteThe one I went to as a kid, and took my kids to got torn down a few years back to build a Google complex. 56 years of operation and they were still making money, but the owners were old, tired, and wanted to sell it.
ReplyDeleteI still remember watching "Twister" in the middle of a Midwest thunderstorm when we took a camper full of kids to the drive-in. Turned a so-so special effects movie into a horror movie.
I remember going to see Kramer vs, Kramer at the drive-in and my date got more interested in undoing my zipper with her teeth.
ReplyDeleteI remember being stationed in the Philipines and right after I got there they got rid of the drive in, more of a walk to realy, out door theatre because of the tropical diseas problem with mosquitoes.
ReplyDeleteBy the time I got stateside they were pretty much all gone.
I do have a fleeting memory as a child of going to a drive in. I do not remember the movie but I remember the speaker dad hung on the window.
we still have one here in flyover country it has three or four screens, and they usually show 2 or three movies for one ticket. the only problem is I am old and grouchy and rarely go to the movies
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We've still got one in Amarillo, the Tascosa Drive-in right next to Wonderland Park. First movie I saw at a Drive-in was The Aristocats. Of course the other screen had some R-rated movie and my brother spent all his time looking out the back window at nekkid titties.
ReplyDeleteThere is still one here close to where I work. The best part was sneaking your friends in, in the trunk, then peeing in the hole where the lock fell out. Ah memories. Fuckers did not have a sense of humor about it though.
ReplyDeleteLove reading y'alls memories... more please.. :-)
ReplyDeleteMost of my memories are of drinking beer, and well, na I don't want to get into it..........;-)
ReplyDeletea large white screen with nothing on it do I win
ReplyDeleteMy first drive in movie was a double feature "My Bloody Valentine and Texas Chain saw Massacre" awesome! It scared the shirts right
ReplyDeleteoff the girls we went with. Young love was great. The Chevy Luv with
a topper next to us was trembling
in fright. :)I wish I was 15 again!
What happened to the good old days.
Thanks Miss K for driving me down
memory lane.
There is one about 30 mins from me and we used to take the kids on the weekend. They have double features and you wouldn't get out of there until about 2am.
ReplyDeleteDon't remember many of the movies but the back seat sex was great
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Next memory was a dusk to dawn with my sister and her hubby. That became the thing to do on a long weekend.
Well, I remember going to a drive in as a small child to see Jaws. My Mom popped some popcorn, and we picked up a pizza on the way. It was wholesome. I remember going back after the neighborhood turned ghetto to see One of the Mad Max movies, I don't remember which one, and was magically transported to an open air market in Mogadishu with all of the sights and smells, where drugs, weapons and women could be bought and sold with impunity. After their 450th assault that year, council put their foot down and now it is a Home Depot.
ReplyDeleteLMAO hiswiserangel! Maybe your brother and I should have a few beers and reflect back on those "other screens."
ReplyDeleteI think Jaws was the first movie I ever saw at the drive-in with my parents and my older brother. Jaws scared the shit out of me (to the day I don't like swimming in the ocean because of it) thanks Mom and Dad.
My brother kept elbowing me during the movie and I was so intrigued with this shark eating people that I just thought he was being mean. When I finally looked over at him, I saw he was watching a much more appropriate movie for kids...
...Animal House was playing on one of the other screens and titties were everywhere, or at least that's how I remember it as a 10 year old kid. Huge, tan, shiny titties.
When my folks heard all the giggling from the back seat of the station wagon, they put two and two together and made us kids sit up front while they got in the back seat.
Now that I think about it, I bet my dad wasn't as "disappointed" in us boys as he acted, because my folks never saw the end of Jaws... ;-)
I am an older guy. The first tie I went to the drive-in I was a boy and saw Johnny Guitar, a western at the El Rancho Drive-in in San Jose, Ca. When I was a teen, I took my pick up truck and parked backwards and we would fill the back with sleeping bags and pillows and all our friends. Good memories.
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My girlfriend and I saw the 1980 movie, Flash, I think. We parked the pickup backwards, air mattress, blankets and pillows in the back. I better stop right there even though at that time I didn't!
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