Drive-in movies

[Archae]

On Milwaukee's PBS channel, they are showing Milwaukee's old drive-in movie theaters.

I used to work at Sheboygan's drive-in, the "Stardusk" theater.
(Projectionist.)

How many others here remember drive-ins?

[fluffernutter]

1. we still have them here.

and of course i remember them from when i was a teenager :)

[tuvor]

2. The last one in BC closed about a year ago.

I remember watching some Porky's with friends from outside of the drive-in. Too young at the time to get in legitimately.

[Kellanved]

3. just one

And not from actually watching a movie in there. But near Frankfurt, a suburban Shopping Mall uses one as parking space...

[Dees]

4. We used to call our local drive in "the passion pit".

[Left Is Write]

5. I miss them.

When I was in high school, we went to the France Avenue Drive-In in Edina, MN. I was still a teenager when they tore it down. It would be impossible to have one there now - the city is too big.

When I was a little kid, through about the mid 1970s, we went to the Lucky Twin Drive-In in Burnsville, MN. Again, the city is too big and built up now to have a drive-in.

I miss drive-ins. There's one about an hour or so away from here, but we've never been. One day, I think we'll put the kids in their jammies, climb into the van and head over there.

[Tsiyu]

6. Well, we have a brand spanking NEW drive in - HA!

Tri-cinematic treasure.

My eleven-year-old wanted a trip to the first weekend's showing to be his birthday gift.

So we sat in the twilight and watched the Polar Express and the new Harry Potter movie and it was even more fun than I remember it being as a child. Ahhhh. I am so lucky.

[Archae]

7. At the Stardusk

They showed 2 movies, (3 on Friday and Saturday night,) and the movies were usually second-runners and the "T and A" films, like "Gas Pump Girls." :9

Most of the movies though were big-screen extravaganzas though, late 60's and early 70's.

But piling all five of us kids and my parents into the station wagon, my two older sisters would go and sit in their friends' cars, my two little sisters would play on the playground before the film started, and we'd get hot dogs and HUGE tubs of popcorn for munching.

[hoi polloi]

8. The drive ins?

That was where I first made out in my 1950 ford. Then after the movie we would go to the "Tick Tock". Or believe it or not, McDonalds was just beginning to come around. Back then the McDonalds fries were pretty good.

[karlrschneider]

9. Fond memories.

:D
From the fifties up 'til ~88 or so.

[u4ic]

10. They still had one in Oakville, Ontario

in the 80's. A friend and I used to go; it was great, as her dad worked for Mercedes and we always went in one. Got LOTS of attention from the young stags there.

[HeeBGBz]

11. Light up the skeeter coil

Pass the reefer and ignore the sounds from the backseat.

[Goathead]

12. There is one on Route 66 in Missouri

I think it is called '66 drive-in'. I have never been there, but I would like to just because it is on Route 66.

http://www.driveintheater.com/list/mo/66di.htm

[logosoco]

16. 66 drive inn

That was the name of the one i used to go to down on my end of route 66,a few miles outside of the st.louis border. I took my daughter there when she was 4 months old just so she could say she had been there because they tore it down a year later (the stores they put there have a habit of not doing so well!)

[Goathead]

22. That sounds cool

Welcome to DU:hi:

[AuntieM1957]

13. Sure, I remember drive-ins

I may have smoked up a car window or 2 in my time!

Didn't see many movies there, though!

[Left Is Write]

14. They showed movies?

;)

[DrZeeLit]

15. Every Saturday night, Escondido Drive In..... those were the days! n/t

[CO Liberal]

17. We Still Have One Outside Pueblo

The Mesa Drive-In, in Blende, a small town just east of Pueblo. Business is so good, they added two more screens a few years ago, and they show three double-features every night they're open.



Pueblo (Pueblo County) Colorado
Mesa Drive-in: 719-542-3345
located at 2620 Santa Fe Drive

This venerable single-screener had been in continuous operation since 1950, then celebrated Y2K and it's 50th season with the addition of 2 more screens (and those themselves had seen service at other Drive-ins). Basic math: there are now 3 screens here, each of them lit-up with a double feature each nite; and a capacity overall for 1,000 cars, making this Colorado's largest Drive-in. They're open seasonally, May thru October; audio: FM. Admission: $6 per person; 12&under free w/parent.

http://www.driveinmovie.com/

[Floogeldy]

18. driveinmovie.com keeps track of the ones still operating

You can probably find on in your state!

[Kahuna]

19. I was really sorry to see them go..

Really really really really sorry. :(

[Floogeldy]

21. I've often wondered . . .

. . . if there is any innovation to the concept of outdoor theaters, like gourmet food or a really HUGE screen, or creating more privacy that might attract patrons in this day and time.

Its difficult to understand why teenagers haven't kept the places up and going. They don't know what they're missing.

[Wapsie B]

20. We took our kids to see

the first Batman movie at the one that was here. There's now a car lot there. Wow we sure need one of those. /sarcasm. I remember that drive-ins were the one form of entertainment I was taken to as a kid. No I never took a date to one.

[Digit]

23. I had a trunk where you could crawl into the main compartment.

Brought people in to see the movie.
Stinker, I am.

[enigmatic]

24. I miss Drive-In's....

When I grew up in Cleveland, there was at least a dozen still operating; when I lived in Phoenix in the 90's, I think they had a couple...

[mitchum]

25. I also worked at a drive-in...

all through high school. My jobs were many; short order cook, projectionist, gatekeeper, waver-of-flashlight-in-order-to-announce-my-approach, repairer of driven-off-with speakers...
I had a blast :)

[CBHagman]

26. The last thing I saw at a drive-in was a double feature.

Some college friends and I saw "Ghostbusters" and "Stripes." It's decades later, and we're all still watching Bill Murray.

My parents took us kids to drive-ins when we were young, and I slept through most of "The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm." It wasn't until years later that I even found out Russ Tamblyn was in it. I remembered Buddy Hackett, though.

I never went to the drive-in on dates, though...

:-)

[Longgrain]

27. Not here any more

the one in my home town closed down about five years ago...

Maybe a couple of others lurking in the wood tho...

[tyedyeto]

28. Ahhhhhhhhhhh........... drive-ins

I remember one time in the early 70's, my best friend and I went to watch the 'Japanese monster flicks' at the local drive-in.... watched one, then they showed 'Last House on the Left'...had nightmares for a looooooooong time.