Do you remember Drive-In Movie Theater's?

If you do you are going to love this website.

http://www.driveinmovie.com/mainmenu.htm

wow, not a single one operating here in Louisiana! I do remember drive-ins, I saw Chitty Chitty Bang Bang with Dick Van Dyke...the old drive in no longer stands, died from neglect then torn down.

I went to the one north of Brainerd, MN. It was called the Gull Drive-in. Always full as it sat right in the middle of the vacation lakes area.
I remember the old mosquito fogger. It made a hack of a racket, fogged everthing, chocked you up if your windows were down. After the smoke cleared the mosquitoes were back.
Big trick was to see how many kids could get in free by hiding in a trunk.
Security guys would be driving around & catch most of them. Seems if you opened your trunk, they would be there instanly!
I was in my younger years then, the drive-in was the place to go with your date. (Lots of foggy windows around!)
Twas the good ol' days!
Bernie

Ahhhh! The all night horror shows on Halloween weekends. Still have several drive-ins around here. So Bernie......How many movies did you actually SEE lol?

i remember driving away with that speaker still stuck to the window!!! it didnt break the window-just pulled the cords out and away we went.

**remember the "foggy" windows too! :)

I didn't get married 'til I was almost 30.

Need I say more!
Bernie

Went to them every weekend!!!! Remember when we both fell asleep and woke up to someone pounding on the windows telling us it was time to leave. Don't think I ever saw a complete movie- I always fell asleep!! Still do - just traded the car seat for the couch!!! No drive ins left in this area. Ya Dori, did the drive away thing here too!!!

Yes I remember used to have Drive-In MovieTheatre was at LaRose, La. long time ago since we got first year married oh we miss those really nice to go out to watch outside Drive-In just two of us.

We still have at least one, here in Denver. A twin drive in! Hard to watch, too many city lights. And it's only open during the summer, they no longer provide car heaters.

And you guys missed the boat on sneaking in in the trunk. We always unhooked the back of the back seat and crawled through! We could put at least 5 or six in the trunk of my Mom's Pontiac! We'd go back on Saturday and Sunday mornings and collect the aluminum beer cans and cash them in. Paid for the following weeks movie!

Oh yes, those were the days!!!!!!!!! Such fun! When ya went with your parents as a family you always parked up in the front rows and when ya got older and were out with your date you parked back further.

Nevr did park in them back rows, but then you couldn't make out them cars anyways for all the steam and fog rising up from around them.

The one we used to go to as kids all the time is now a giant flea market spot. Still has all the grooves in the road though from where the front of your car would be parked higher than the rear.

It sure would be nice to go to them again. A whole lot cheaper than paying 8.75 for a 2 hour movie.

The only bad thign about drive-ins was when ya went to go get popcorn and colas and it would be dark out and then after the bright lights from inside the snack shop and you came back outside ..many a time we forgot what row we parked in. Then ya spent half the movie time tryign to figure out where it was.

And ya are tripping over the bumps and running into the speaker poles while ya strain to watch the movie and find your car at the same time.

Thanks for memory land and the good times!! : ) Ahhhh to be 18 again.. LOL

One of my favorite memories...
Especially when we kids got to go in our jammies, with pillows and blankets. We had a red Dodge station wagon, and in the summer, we even got to lay out on the roof of it to watch.

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Great memories of a by-gone era.... lemme tell you the first "drive-in theatre" I ever saw was in the tiny cotton-farming community of Carter, OK.... about the year 1949-50 when I was 8 or 9 years old. The movie was projected on the side of a building which had been painted white for use as a "screen". The cars simply lined up in a few rows ...maybe only 10 cars at the most... and the sound system consisted of one speaker turned up "high"so everyone could hear it. No concession stand...had to bring our own snacks. The movie I saw starred Judy Canova & I remember the "timing" was off so that the lip movement was not in sync with the sound. That didn't detract from our enjoyment since that was the only entertainment for miles around except for radios at home which were powered by "wind-chargers" . We didn't yet have rural (REA) electricity yet.

cottonpicker

The sound being out of sync, that still happens on a local TV station here. I can't believe they put it out thay way.
The town we live in now used to project movies on the wall of a building also. But here they sat around in the grass to watch them. They did this so kids had something to do while the folks shopped & had a cocktail at the local salon.
This was Wed nights, all the stores stayed open late on Wed.
Bernie

Bernie.... Lewisville sounds like my kind o' town....
cottonpicker

Nothing left now, bank, cafe, municiple liquor store, grain elevator, legion club.
A lady has a "C" store, but that's on the highway.

We still have a working drive-in about 10 miles from here. Operates in the warm months. Great draw for the tourist folk that comes to KY Lake.

We used to sneak in by the trunk load too.

Fond memories-SO long ago. My BF (at that time) actually did fall asleep-sounded like lame excuse but did happen. Sure miss the fun movie and the easier times popcorn with Butter!

CountryGardens.... Lewisville, MI and Carter, OK sound like twins...almost.
All that's left in Carter now is a Bank, fire station, cotton gin & cafe.

I remember the drive-in movies!!! I guess I'm telling my age, eh? LOL Ah, those were the days all right...:-)

Terri

We still have on here in Columbus. Two, in fact. The one on my side of town is a twin, always shows the first run films, and is still very popular. Three days a week they also have flea marketing, so I guess they make out OK. They no longer have those big old window speakers. You listen to the sound through your car radio, of all things!

There is nothing nicer than loading up a convertible with friends and picnic food and going to the drive-in.

We still have several old time drive-ins around Cincinnati and Dayton...lots of summertime fun in an old fashioned way...

But you know what Mark Twain said about Cincinnati--"when the end of the world comes I want to be in Cincinnati because it's twenty years behind every place else!"

not sure if that's really true, but it could be....

tabasco>> Cincinnati--- I remember that city so well from my childhood since one of my favorite Sat. morning radio programs back in the late '40s & early 50's came from there. It was "Big Jon & Sparky" and ""there's noooo schoool todaaaay"". Big Jon Arthur lived in Cincinnati as I remember. Anyone else "out there" remember that program?

Larry

There is still a drive-in theatre here, just outside of town. I'm not old enough to remember when they were more common, this is the only one i've ever known. I heard that there weren't many left. I love it, 2 movies for the price of 1, and being in your own car gives it a more personal touch, also much better than being cramped and having some stranger kicking the back of your chair, like at the indoor theatre.

I remember getting bundled up in my PJ's and stretching out in the back of our station wagon. Charlotte's Web was one drive-in experience I particularly remember...Cried my eyes out when Charlotte died! I remember lying on the hood of the car on a sleeping bag, too. We'd lean up against the windshield. That was a comfy spot.

Ceceoh - are you talking about the South Drive-In on South High Street? We've never been to that one. Presumably it will re-open this spring. We were so sorry to see the 40-East drive-in (Reynoldsburg, OH) close a couple years back. Since it was on the east side of Columbus, it wasn't too bad a drive for us and we visited it a couple times a season. Skyview in Lancaster is still in business, and that's not too terrible of a drive (we're nightowls, after all).

When I was in high school, I went to the drive-in's in Newark and Heath quite often. They're both long closed. What dens of iniquity those were in the 1980's, I tell ya. ;)

Wow, Wish they were back! I remember having alot of fun at these and it was good place to take the kids, pretty inexpensive and the kids had a ball! Good movies too! I noticed they won't be coming back in my area of Illinois, boo hoo but Thanks for sharing this! Denise