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Post by Sandman on Oct 17, 2018 22:01:59 GMT
When these were all over the place and you took your girlfriend and did not even watch the movie?  Or you went with some friends and took a cooler full of beer. Great memories for me. |
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Post by Sulla on Oct 17, 2018 22:07:43 GMT
Good times!  |
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Post by Feologild Oakes on Oct 17, 2018 22:09:05 GMT
Only place i have seen that are on tv. We never had Drive-in theater in Norway if we did it was before my time.
Anyway wasn't those really just popular in the 50s and 60s in the US?
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Post by Sandman on Oct 17, 2018 22:44:14 GMT
Only place i have seen that are on tv. We never had Drive-in theater in Norway if we did it was before my time. Anyway wasn't those really just popular in the 50s and 60s in the US? Yes that was their peak but they were still all over long after that. The drive-in's peak popularity came in the late 1950s and early 1960s with over 4000 of them in America. Today there are less than 350. Anyone remember this:   |
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Post by mecano04 on Oct 18, 2018 0:32:57 GMT
I remember that they usually showed the shitty movie first, so as a kid, you had to wait and wait, for the movie your parents wanted to see to be shown.
It was alright and there is still one about 20-25 mins away from home but I haven't been there in years.
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Post by koskiewicz on Oct 18, 2018 0:39:30 GMT
...we would load the trunk of the car with as many guys that would fit. Then pay for only the driver to get in. Once in, everyone would get into the car to watch the grade Z film.
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Post by vegalyra on Oct 18, 2018 18:35:29 GMT
I was around at the tail end of the drive in movie theater scene in the Houston area. There was one in Pasadena, TX that we went to a few times. I saw Empire Strikes Back and Smokey and the Bandit Part II there. There were probably a few others but I don't remember them. We had a '79 Pontiac Le Mans Safari station wagon at the time and my brother and I and my parents would pile in and check out the film. My mom would usually throw a couple of pillows and blankets in the back and we'd fold down the seats and eat popcorn and what not. Good memories. Hurricane Alicia destroyed the theater and they never rebuilt. I remember the marquee/sign at the entrance withstood the storm and someone eventually spray painted "GONE WITH THE WIND" before the entire site was demolished. Sad days.
There was another drive in a few miles away that was at one time a legit drive in that turned into a XXX drive in theater. The owners put up some huge barrier with corrugated metal to try to keep onlookers from the nearby street from peering in but my brother and I always snuck a peak somehow through the gaps in the metal. Funny stuff. It was eventually torn down (somehow it survived the hurricane) and it's still an empty lot 30+ years later.
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Post by Sandman on Oct 18, 2018 19:06:55 GMT
We did this also with lawn chairs. It was great watching the movies under the stars.  |
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Post by Nalkarj on Oct 18, 2018 19:40:50 GMT
The heyday of drive-ins was before my time, as it were, but my family and I used to go up from Long Island to Lake George, NY, every year, and there’s still one that we’d visit there with several different fields and screens, and they play double-features (and all the old ads!). Unfortunately, I remember seeing only the worst movies there, but the experience is great.
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Post by alfromni on Oct 22, 2018 14:23:54 GMT
Never had 'em in the UK so never missed 'em.
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