None nearby- I have never even been to one

We used to have a drive-in here that we went to about every Saturday night in high school. Years ago, someone bought it, tore the screen down and added on to the projector/consession building and converted it into a house and are living in it. There are now cows where the theater used to be.

Ours always did double features too. It was nice because getting home late from a date, we could always say we just stayed for the second show.

I saw Gremlins at the drive in. I don't remember what the other movie was that night.

i also remember falling asleep to Dragnet and seeing The Burbs and Light Of Day

Oh Darlene! I am glad I'm not the only one interested in Drive ins! Our last one was torn down when I was 5. I went to see the Toy with Richard Pryor.

If you don't mind I'm gonna dig up an old thread that had a link to Drive-ins still around in the US!

I found it!

http://www.driveinmovie.com/

Ruby wrote:

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Not my innocent Web!

 

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Oh, no, no . . . that was "high school Web".

He was a completely different guy.

 

 

Oh man!  Drive Ins!  I remember the days!    The last one I went to was back in about 1990 and there was a double feature re-run..."Carrie" and "The Shining".  There are no drive ins left here anymore! 

Now I don't even have a cinema in Weipa!  LOL...every two months they roll in a big screen on the back of a flat bed truck and everyone gathers around outside sitting on blanekts and bring your own chairs and we watch a flick!  Never a new release though!  Only ever old classics...which i do not mind in the slightest!

The drive-in theatres of the Milwaukee area have all died off and I sadly watched them dismantle the last two. That was such a great memory of my childhood, and I miss it. My parents would load us in the car with blankets and lawn chairs. They's make popcorn on the stove and butter and salt it in a big brown paper bag for us to take along. We'd stop at the A&W for rootbeer and cheeseburgers on the way. Then we'd watch something really cool, like Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger! (Hey, it is too cool when you're a little kid!) Of course, being the only kid with a sleeping problem, I'd also manage to watch Cheech & Chong second feature because they thought I was sleeping. {{lol}}




-- Edited by garougal at 11:29, 2007-06-08

You bet! Where did you mini golf, Johnson's Park? It's funny how these memories are so vivid to me. I remember loving the feel of my Baby Bear mug of rootbeer, because it was so cold and frosty from the mug being chilled. I remember liking to hear the crickets chirping before the movie started, and feeling hungry because I could smell the popcorn and hot dogs from the concession stand. I remember thinking those old silver radio boxes, the one you fasten to the window to listen to the movie, were so cool. I wish someone would bring a drive-in back to the area...we still have one drive-up A&W, so that would be like old times!

I grew up with A&W too. But I no longer have one too close to me. I think there is a small one a few cities over. We used to go to the one in Standish when we were up up to see his parents. It is the old style were you order your food using the phone at the table.

Oh and I liked Sinbad too right along with Clash Of The Titans!

ha ha Medussa! I remember after watching that the kids at school started doing Medussa things like pretending they turned to stone. And of course there was the assigning someone to be Medussa!

Oh, and "Clash of the Titans" - one of my all-time favorite movies. Seriously, I can quote along with it, I've seen it so many times.

Nerd alert!