Any one on here old enough to remember drive-in theaters & don't you miss them?

Answer 1

Yes and they were a great way for the family to go out together. Most of my memories are of the drive-ins we went to in El Cajon & La Mesa, CA. Those are towns near San Diego. I can even recall the names a a few...the ACE, AREO , Santee and the Campus Drive -In theathers. Some weekends the ACE & AREO theaters would show B movies and we wouldn't get home until 2 am. At first they use to charge admission by the car...normally it was $3.00 or $4.00 per car regardless of how many people were in the vehicle. Sometimes when they were showing B movies the price was as low as $2.50 per car. Of course this was 1965 and that was a lot of money at the time. Eventually, about 1968, the theaters began to charge for each person in the car...typically between $2.50 to $3.75 per person. Of course that's when, as high school kids, we started trying to sneak people into the movies. There was alway some dummy that tried to hide his/her friends in the trunk and drove up to the ticket booth alone in the car. That was a pretty obvious give away and they ALWAYS made you open the trunk. Of course, there was always the one poor guy that really was going to the drive in alone and having to open up his truck was truly embarressing.There weren't any video stores back then! The last time we went to a drive in was to see the most recent GODZILLIA. That was in Waterloo, Iowa maybe 10 years ago?

Answer 2

I loved going to the drive in. It is an experience I wish my kids could have had. Nothing better than being snuggled into your car with your family watching the movies and listen on that little speaker that would hang on the window. They always had a little playground for the kids to. If we got bored and talked to much we would be sent off to play. Now that I am an adult I could think of a few other reasons we may have been sent off to play.
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Answer 3

The Swap Shop in Fort Lauderdale Florida still operates the Thunderbird drive in movie theater at night.

Check it out:

http://www.floridaswapshop.com/movies.cfm

Answer 4

There is still a really good drive-in a few miles from where I live (the RUSTIC Drive-In, No. Smithfield RI) It got so popular (prolly 'cuz it's one of the last around) that, in the last 10 years or so, they actually added 2 more screen...they went from one to THREE!!!
I do remember them from my youth tho. I remember going to another one, closer to where I grew up, in my jammies with my brother and sister, and playing on the swingsets, eating junkfood and then finally falling asleep in the back of the station wagon before the second feature came on! :-)

Answer 5

Yes, I do remember them. My family went all the time. My most memorable time was when we saw The Ten Commandments. It was storming, lightning and thunder just at the right times. I am always saying I wish my 14yr. old son could experience drive ins. I do miss them and think it was good, clean family fun that is so lacking in today's world.

Answer 6

Yes !!!

There are still a couple drive ins in our area, but they are no longer as "family friendly" as they were when I was a kid. I have one friend who will still go to them, but not me .......

Our local Parks and Rec department does a program called Friday Flicks. They project a "family" movie up on the side of a large building and everyone can sit in the lawn with their lawn chairs, coolers and blankets. They do three or four movies a summer. The last one was "Hook"

Answer 7

At the risk of generating envy, I do not miss them, because where I am in Maryland we still have one! We had two, but one closed last year. The one that still runs has a ton of rules, so many that my wife and I call it the "Nazi Drive-In" but I understand they are trying to protect a vanishing business. My favorite rule, "Shoeless children can not be carried."

Answer 8

Yes I remember them back in the good old days going with family and playing in the parks that are in the front just below the big huge screens. Sittting in the cars with the big huge metal speakers that were not so clear then .LOL !!!! aaaaahh those were the days.

Answer 9

Hell yes i miss them! No more .... in the back seat, and now that i have children that cant sit still long enough and quiet enough for a sit in theater.

Answer 10

There's still one where I live in Lakeland Florida, but it's gotten run-down over the years and it's not even the same as I remember when I was little.