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HolyMoly 
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Retired Admin Joined: April 01 2009 Location: Atlanta Status: Offline Points: 26133 |
 Posted: February 27 2012 at 15:36 |
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I went to see one just in the last 10 years. It was Spider Man with Toby Driver... uh Maguire. That's the only one though. Glad I got to try it. Unfortunately, I locked my friend in the trunk and had to go find a crowbar... or was that a Cheech and Chong skit....
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: February 27 2012 at 15:54 |
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Sneaking in people in the trunk was an essential part of the drive in experience.
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manofmystery
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Joined: January 26 2008 Location: PA, USA Status: Offline Points: 4335 |
Posted: February 27 2012 at 15:57 |
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They just closed the one I went to on occasion, as a child. Remember seeing Down Periscope there. It was the opening movie in a double-header but I can't recall what the main feature was.
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 27 2012 at 16:19 |
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I remember being thrown in the trunk with a flashlight and promises of candy if I kept quiet. I was deathly afraid of the dark as a young kid, but I never blew my cover. |
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: February 27 2012 at 16:41 |
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Yes,and we still have one in our area that is VERY popular called Bengies.We probably go there a few times every summer,it's like a tradition around here.
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zappaholic
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Joined: March 24 2006 Location: flyover country Status: Offline Points: 2822 |
Posted: February 27 2012 at 17:05 |
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There's websites devoted to drive-in theatres and keeping track of which ones are still operational. Here's one.
The Lynn Drive-In in Strasburg, Ohio (a wide place in the road about 15 miles south of Canton) is the second oldest continuously operating drive-in in the country. Edited by zappaholic - February 27 2012 at 17:06 |
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"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." -- H.L. Mencken
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ClemofNazareth
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Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4659 |
Posted: February 27 2012 at 21:21 |
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My parents used to take us to drive-ins in Montana when I was a kid in the late 60s and early 70s. It was cheap entertainment for a family of six on a limited budget and only three channels of TV at home (including the Canadian Broadcasting station). The first movie I remember seeing there was Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman, Robert Redford and the very lovely Katharine Ross around 1970, and we were treated to a little side-nipple shot of Ms. Ross We also saw Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, a Clint Eastwood movie that was filmed in my hometown of Great Falls, Montana and which included a scene where my old middle school was blown up. A bunch of us kids from the neighborhood got to watch that being filmed from down the street. When I was a teenager in Kansas a lot of us used to go to the drive-in near the Wichita East mall and watch stuff on the weekend like The Wall, FM, Heavy Metal and The Rocky Horror Picture Show plus a lot of Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson movies. That theater was torn down in the mid-eighties and I went by to pick up a few bricks from the concession stand to use as bookends in my apartment. During college at Wichita State in the mid-eighties there were weekends with horror movie marathons from the Friday the 13th and Halloween series at the Starlight on South Hydraulic. That theater is still active today. And one of my brothers and I used to make road trips to Kansas City on summer weekends to the Boulevard drive-in and get hammered while sitting in front of our car. One night he got so drunk he passed out and I left him there. He wasn't too happy when he trudged up the street to our hotel at dawn with a bent up lawn chair under his arm There are a couple near where I live now that have both been around for more than 60 years, but I haven't been to either of them yet. Kind of hard to imagine my kids getting excited about a big fuzzy screen, mosquitoes and stale popcorn when they have HD TV and Blu-Ray players at home, but drive-ins were pretty cool in their time. |
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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Sean Trane
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 07:32 |
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Once only, and mostly to say I'd done it... Couldn't possible remember which turd I saw that night, but it was more of the party idea (beers & doobies) It's one of the most blatant form of American-styled western decadence, IMHO (although I confess having eaten at drive-in fast- foods some more times
 ) ... Never thought it was a correct way to watch a movie.... those stupid speakers that you had to hang out from your window... HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY GIVE YOU A GOOD SOUND? what if it rains??Not sure, but in the wider Toronto area (roughly 5M people),there was only one drive-in movie (in Oakville, if memory serves) ...
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 10:15 |
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They haven't had those speakers for ages.You tune in to a certain frequency on your car radio.
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Tapfret
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 11:15 |
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My most vivid memory of a drive-in experience was with my mom and dad who took me with them to see a double feature of "Tunnel vision" and "Up in smoke". These were funny movies to a 9-year-old. Saw them later in life and gawd are they awful.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 11:29 |
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And that's just at the indoor movie theaters.  Oh, I'm sorry, that's sticky floors, obnoxious loud talking fellow movie goers, and stale popcorn for the indoor ones. I think with HD TV and home theater systems, the indoor movie theaters will join the drive in ones as mostly a thing of the past. Edited by Slartibartfast - February 28 2012 at 11:36 |
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Matthew T
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 13:58 |
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We had them everywhere in the sixties and seventies. Still have one going near my house in Melbourne. They used to give you two films, now it is only one and like the cinema, they clear out the Drive In and put another audience in. No more putting the speaker in window, you just tune in the car radio to the Drive In frequency for the movie's audio. They used to have swings for the kids just near the screen and I still took my kids when they were little as well.
Do you know how many girlfriends I took to the Drive In? Used to go all the time. Cheap date
 They got rid of many here due to Land values. They all have beautiful shopping Malls or ram jam packed apartments on them now. ( agents term for putting a extra twenty grand on the price) Apartments were called flats here originally till the eighties.)
I saw "Apocalypse Now" on the day we had Ash Wednesday ( huge bushfire). I was in the metro area of the state and the day had got to 44 or 110 degrees and I was with my soon to be wife and the wind changed and all the dust , ash and soot from the fires came with it. I just had shorts on and was covered in sh*t which just stuck to me due to the sweat all over me.
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:04 |
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Oh I think we have much more egregious examples of American decadence than drive-in movies, my friend. This is a related one I find particularly appalling (drive-in churches). Almost as bad as drive-in liquor stores, which are about as counter-intuitive an idea as any I've ever seen. In fact, "Examples of American Decadence" sounds like a great thread topic!
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:10 |
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I just turned 46,not exactly a spring chicken.
 I remember the days of the speakers,but they haven't been used at our local drive in since the 70's. |
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:13 |
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Drive in Worship
Yes Do it do it!
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Help me I'm falling!
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:23 |
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Lol what? |
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:24 |
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Why is that a counter-intuitive idea? I use one every weekend. It's pretty great. |
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:37 |
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Could be worse I guess...
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 15:15 |
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What's the problem with a drive in liquor store?
 You are making the presumption that people who use them are driving drunk and can't stumble out of their cars to walk in. Oh and by the way, that's actually a drive thru in the picture and if you're going to drive thru a liquor store... Edited by Slartibartfast - February 28 2012 at 15:18 |
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Man With Hat
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 22:34 |
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No. But if i could find one around here I would def go.
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