My boyfriend (now husband) use to take my little nieces there to watch the movies. They love the hot dogs and sitting outside the car with us. Then they would go to sleep in the back-seat.
2007-10-28 00:18:45 · 32 answers · asked by Livelife 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Changing the time back has about destroy the business of drive-in theaters
2007-10-28 00:22:14 · update #1
I loved them, but they're going the way of the dinosaurs.
2007-10-28 00:22:44 · answer #1 · answered by R.H. 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do. I have seen many good movies at the drive in Like the God, the Bad, and the Ugly, Two Mules for sister Sarah, El Darado, Big Jake, The Blob, The Body Snatchers, Easy Rider, Hells Angel's on 'Wheels etc.
There is one about 4 miles just opened up this last summer and have not got a chance to go yet but I have driven by and it is a makeshift of the original drive ins. Just a screen in a field with a portable building for a snack bar.
We still have one of the originals still around but they have been XXX rated for about 25 or 30 years now. They had to move across county after they started showing those movies that was about 25 years or maybe thirty years ago they moved. they did stay in that place a few years. But it is still built like the original drives in were built. Too bad someone could not buy it and make it legit again.
Here is the one that just opened this summer http://www.tylerdrivein.com/
2007-10-28 01:22:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
There a still a couple left around here. Yes, I do miss them and hope they will be resurrected. I remember the good old days when you could take your lawn chairs, a cooler and your hibatchi. Toss a few hot dogs on the hibatchi, have a couple of beers/sodas, relax and watch a movie with the kids. Times were much simpler then. It seems that they are taking all the fun things to do away and replacing it with anything stressful they can muster.
Kids had the playground in the front, cartoons before the movies, intermission was quite entertaining with the animated countdowns to movie #2.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I sure do miss those times.
Enjoy your day!
2007-10-28 00:38:55 · answer #3 · answered by Sr. Mary Holywater 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Oh yeah, they provided some of better memories of my childhood. All the neighborhood kids would jump into the pack of a pickup truck ( before it was illegal) and head off for truckload nite.
Playgrounds, the concession stand, cartoons, the smaller kids would be asleep on a pallet by the time the adult movie came on. Often there were two movies......
As a teenager, my brother and I did not get along well, but he found himself dateless one Saturday night, and took me to the drivein. We sat in the car together for hours without speaking a word!!
The times (always) change, and I don't see that the time change brought about their demise. Plush seating in climate controlled theaters with superior sound effects did..........Not to mention how much more profitable it was for the theaters.
2007-10-28 06:47:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes I used to go as a kid and took our kids in their PJ's, We would sit outside the car on a Hot summer night. In the winter we had the car heaters. Can't say the refreshment food was that great, but what do you want from a drive-in.
In fact I have or should say had one about a 1/4 mile from my house. Now they are in the process of building another housing subdivision.there.
Funny thing is there is a Cemetery next door.I don't know if I would be buying a house next to a Cemetery. True you know no one will be building next to it or behind you, but I think it would be a little spooky living and looking at at a Cemetery next to you house as long as you lived there. I think I would pass on that location for buying.
There is still one Drive-In left here in my town, but I think it will soon be on the way out also.
2007-10-28 08:00:43 · answer #5 · answered by Moe 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good question ,i am a member of the drive ins-of America restoration team.when i was younger i use to help re-do some old ones and bring them back to life.we would paint and clean and do a little carpentry work.we have reopened in the last 20 years 3 theaters here in Tennessee.when i lived in Dallas we use to go to all the x-rated ones and i too would fall asleep[that is when i was married to my first husband][and he was a pervert]one was the Linda Kay and it was a pink screened one.their is a web site showing some of the old ones around the USA,but i cant remember what it was.loved the memories
2007-10-28 04:47:49 · answer #6 · answered by alcaholicdemon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I remember going to the drive in with my Mom and Dad. They would bring popcorn and cokes, my Mom would make my sister and I pallets in the back of the station wagon. We would watch the first movie and fall asleep after intermission. That was such a great time and something my family could afford. When I got older they had teen night on Tuesdays. My friends and I would all go, get out the lawn chairs and sit in front of the cars. Now I guess they are afraid the gangs of teens would cause too much trouble. How sad...
2007-10-28 00:54:10 · answer #7 · answered by Leepal 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the last one we were at just before it closed had Bruce Lee Night. several of us got together and went.
the next closest had as a finale John Wayne Night and the same group got together to say " farewell " to the Drive - In Theaters around our town.
We used to have a lot of fun at these theaters and in a sense it is sad the " younger generation " will miss doing some of the things we did. However, perhaps our parents felt the same way when some of their favorite things to do ceased to exist.
2007-10-28 02:12:05 · answer #8 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where you are, but here in the Pittsburgh area, there are still a few in operation. We have the Pioneer in Butler PA, the Riverside in Vandergrift, the Evergreen in Mt. Pleasant, the Dependable in Coraopolis and the Hi-Way in Latrobe, just to name a few.
They're not all over the place like they used to be, but on a warm summer night, the drive is well worth the experience. I still love 'em....they're a blast.
2007-10-28 00:33:31 · answer #9 · answered by Yinzer Power 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My city used to have 2 of them one in the north and one in the south. There is a Wal mart and hospital complex now were the north drive in theater was. And the south one is now a collision repair center.
2007-10-28 02:24:02 · answer #10 · answered by Yahoo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I miss them too. We used to take fried chicken and cokes to eat during the late night horror movies. Then the bug man would drive through the aisles to get rid of the skeeters.
Jeeze, we'd cough for hours after that.
2007-10-28 04:18:26 · answer #11 · answered by 2jaxx 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋