The Drive In.

[Walt Longmire]

Oh those were the days.

[Walt Longmire]

Used to park the family station wagon backwards and drop the tailgate. Lay in the back and watch from there. Not with the family though.

[Walt Longmire]

Later took my F250 4x4 and parked backwards and sat in the back with lawn chairs.

[Walt Longmire]

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[holyjohnson]

we have 2 here 1 in Elko at a speedway and the other in Cottage Grove.

 

both still um,work

 

Edited October 1, 2018 by holyjohnson

[Huaco Kid]

We've still got one here.  It's nothing glamorous, but still fun.

I'm usually turned a different direction than everyone I'm with, watching a different movie.

And "sipping" my drink.

[Walt Longmire]

Steamy windows. Popcorn. Pizza. X rated movies.

[Huaco Kid]

2 minutes ago, Walt Longmire said:

X rated movies.

When we still bicycle-bandits,  we'd go camping in the woods on weekends.

The woods ended on a steep hill overlooking a drive-in.  That's where we'd set up camp.

Good times.

[Huaco Kid]

5 hours ago, holyjohnson said:

 

 

They used that film on the movie Grease.  It was a real drive-in intermission ad.

Absolutely no one involved in the movie,  until they were watching the final cut, had noticed that the bun holds itself open and the wiener jumps into it, just as Travolta sadly sings, "Oh, Sandy!"

They thought it was hilarious and left it that way.

[Collim1]

My wife and I still go to a couple of drive in movies a year. Lots of fun. The one we go to always does a double feature. Classic movie followed by a new(ish) release. 

Edited October 1, 2018 by Collim1

[ARP]

There is one along the Ohio turnpike west of Cleveland near Oberlin. Drive past it at night, kinda neat to see it.

[Dric902]

Still have one about six miles down the road from me.

run past another when working.

 

few and far between

 

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[Walt Longmire]

Back in the 70's I watched dusk till dawn Clint Eastwood movies at the drive in. Wasn't supposed to be working the next day. We had been shut down for fire danger. Well the shutdown was lifted in the evening. I didn't know that. Got woke up at 6 am after 15 minutes of sleep and tossed into the crummy and hauled to a logging job on the Rez. Still drunk. I sawed into my boots a couple times that morning with the chainsaw. Luckily did not cut myself. Never went to work like that again. Ever.

[PBCounty]

I took this BEAUTIFUL 'neck chick to one about twelve years ago (her insistence).  She got one of them pickled sausages out of the jar at the concession stand.  She never even washed her hands after eating that thing with the red sauce dripping all over her.  That was a gnarly looking sausage too, with like knots or some such all over it.  Later on when I was making out with her I could smell that nonsense on her hands / breath.  Man.   

Edited October 1, 2018 by PBCounty

[Zonny]

55 minutes ago, PBCounty said:

I took this BEAUTIFUL 'neck chick to one about twelve years ago (her insistence).  She got one of them pickled sausages out of the jar at the concession stand.  She never even washed her hands after eating that thing with the red sauce dripping all over her.  That was a gnarly looking sausage too, with like knots or some such all over it.  Later on when I was making out with her you smell that nonsense on her hands / breath.  Man.   

Could have been worse

[Cali-Glock]

Still have a multi-plex drive in in Sacramento. My wife and I like to go once or twice a year.  Took the nieces and nephews five or six years ago - parked the F150 backwards filled it with sleeping bags, comforters and pillows for the kids and my wife and I sat in lawn chairs.  Fun summer evening!!

[Foxterriermom]

There's one not too far from me but it's usually way too hot to go sit in a car to watch a movie.  They are only open a few months out of the year or else I would consider going with some friends during cooler temps just for the kicks of it.

I was young the first time I went to the drive-in with a guy.  I was very naive and had no idea that his plans for the evening did not include actually watching the movie. 

[G26S239]

The last movie I recall seeing at a drive in is Videodrome. Great movie James Woods has had some great roles.

[deputy tom]

Lots of wonderful memories of the Drive Ins of yore. tom.

[PBCounty]

I think we've got one left in all of Palm Beach County, one pretty damn large and populated county, and I believe it only shows movies now on Friday and Saturday nights.  The rest of the time it's closed or serves as an outdoor flea market. 

[crockett]

1 hour ago, PBCounty said:

I took this BEAUTIFUL 'neck chick to one about twelve years ago (her insistence).  She got one of them pickled sausages out of the jar at the concession stand.  She never even washed her hands after eating that thing with the red sauce dripping all over her.  That was a gnarly looking sausage too, with like knots or some such all over it.  Later on when I was making out with her you smell that nonsense on her hands / breath.  Man.   

 

[Borg warner]

I just discovered that there's one an hour and 39 minutes away from where I live. One of only 5 in the entire state of Washington. Drive-ins wer so popular when I was in high school that on a Friday or Saturday night you'd usually see other kids from school at the drive-in snack bar during intermission. The last time I went to a drive in was about 1985.

One movie I remember seeing in 1967 was Night of the Living Dead. I went with my girlfriend and her sister and a friend of mine and we bought burritos and beers before going to the movie. about a half hour into the movie we lost our appetites for the Burritos. My girlfriend was really freaked out by that movie and I was too, a little bit, and when we got home we both drank a lot of wine to calm our nerves.