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Post by puffy on Jan 1, 2019 22:48:13 GMT -5
When my wife and I were much younger than we are now. Sometimes we would grab some burgers and drinks and go to a drive in movie..We didn't always completely concentrate on the movie..As I said..We were much younger back then..Of course those places are long gone..Just Wondering..Anyone here old enough to have gone to a drive in movie?
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Post by pepesdad1 on Jan 1, 2019 22:49:02 GMT -5
Sure, many times...but that was over 50 years ago.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2019 23:00:15 GMT -5
Larry, thanks....you now brought up some great memories from the past, I enjoyed drive in movies, not for the movie. Remember hiding a bunch of friends in the trunk when I was a teen,
Did you ever drive away accidentally with the speaker still hooked onto your drivers side window....lol
Some outstanding times for sure👍👍👌
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 1, 2019 23:00:50 GMT -5
When my wife and I were much younger than we are now. Sometimes we would grab some burgers and drinks and go to a drive in movie..We didn't always completely concentrate on the movie..As I said..We were much younger back then..Of course those places are long gone..Just Wondering..Anyone here old enough to have gone to a drive in movie? Many. The first one was The Ten Commandments. I was very young, but I remember it. I also watched at drive-ins: A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to The Forum. Wild in the streets. Hammersmith is Out. Myra Breakinrige. One Million Years BC Bedazzled And many other hit or miss movies. |
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Post by Dramatwist on Jan 1, 2019 23:02:50 GMT -5
...first drive-in I remember is "Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte" with Bette Davis...
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Post by monbla256 on Jan 1, 2019 23:03:05 GMT -5
It's probably 40 years since I've been to one! There are not any left around here. I think the last one over in Dallas closed about 10 years ago. 
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 1, 2019 23:03:17 GMT -5
Oh yeah. The Karman Ghia is the very worst car for a drive in just to watch the movie. Don't even imagine trying anything involving 2 people.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2019 23:05:03 GMT -5
Ron, at the Commack drive in they actually showed Fritz The Cat. The next day that drive in made the newspaper with MANY complaints from neighbors able to view the screen. Definitely not a movie for a drive in....lol.
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Post by papipeguy on Jan 1, 2019 23:07:36 GMT -5
We still have 2 drive-ins here. Great fun.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 1, 2019 23:08:03 GMT -5
Oh yeah. The Karman Ghia is the very worst car for a drive in just to watch the movie. Don't even imagine trying anything involving 2 people. I had a Triumph Spitfire convertible.......no problem. Actually worked out well with the top down👍👍 |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 1, 2019 23:08:29 GMT -5
Ron, at the Commack drive in they actually showed Fritz The Cat. The next day that drive in made the newspaper with MANY complaints from neighbors able to view the screen. Definitely not a movie for a drive in....lol. I saw Fritz at the drive in with my friends. I don't remember any complaints about that like there were with Last Tango In Paris! 😨😉🤠 |
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 1, 2019 23:13:37 GMT -5
Ron, at the Commack drive in they actually showed Fritz The Cat. The next day that drive in made the newspaper with MANY complaints from neighbors able to view the screen. Definitely not a movie for a drive in....lol. I saw Fritz at the drive in with my friends. I don't remember any complaints about that like there were with Last Tango In Paris! 😨😉🤠 The Ghia wasn't a softtop. |
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Post by piffyr on Jan 1, 2019 23:23:35 GMT -5
Of course those places are long gone..Just Wondering..Anyone here old enough to have gone to a drive in movie? Not all of them. There's one about 20-30 minutes from where I live that we go to a few times a year. They play both first-run and re-release movies. The last one we went to was Jurassic World over the summer. I would have loved to have caught the original Smokey and the Bandit when it was playing a few months ago, but it didn't work out. We take the dog along with us when we can. She loves it! |
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Post by crapgame on Jan 1, 2019 23:34:48 GMT -5
I still go..there is one 5 min away..another one 20 min away..a third 45 min away..we are blessed to still have them
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Post by Ronv69 on Jan 1, 2019 23:39:29 GMT -5
As far as I know they have all disappeared from Texas. Between the weather and the Mosquitoes it's hard to enjoy a movie outside. They used to fog for mosquitoes before the movie and at intermission.
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Post by smellthehatfirst on Jan 1, 2019 23:55:12 GMT -5
Drive-ins were still a thing when I was a young man, not too awful long ago. I think the last one in my neck of the woods closed about fifteen years ago.
Of course, I have only ever seen second-run and "B" movies at a drive-in. I'm not old enough to remember drive-ins that could solicit new releases.
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Post by crapgame on Jan 2, 2019 0:22:07 GMT -5
I just remembered!!! MY avatar is a pic of me and one of my dogs at the drive in!
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Post by kxg on Jan 2, 2019 0:58:50 GMT -5
I’ve fond memories of the long gone drive-in, as a kid with my parents and as a teenager with my girlfriend, now wife. Fun times.
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Post by kb7get on Jan 2, 2019 5:11:25 GMT -5
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Post by toshtego on Jan 2, 2019 5:21:33 GMT -5
Memorable Drive In experiences.
Early Spring, 1968, somewhere in rural Maryland. "Night of the Living Dead". A collection of Stoners in an old car.
1973. A XXX Drive In south of San Francisco. "Dagmar's Hot Pants". A girl friend and me in the back seat of a Rover 2000 (P6). Doing what young people did in Drive Ins. I still cannot figure out how we both fit back there.
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Post by trailboss on Jan 2, 2019 5:54:10 GMT -5
Drive ins were the most common ways we saw movies growing up... I remember seeing Last House OnThe Left in 74-75?... that movie freaked me out, because there was a guy working at the theater concession that looked just like the scumbag killer in the movie. (Schertz Texas) In about 1980, my brother and I went to the El Rancho theater in San Jose to watch double feature Kung Fu movies. We went to the concession to get drinks and two drunk Mexicans decided that they were going to use the Kung Fu lessons they learned from the movie on us. One small problem... my brother was a Recon Marine... My brother gave them the “We don’t want any problems, just leave us alone” speech. They took it as weakness, and called us Putas. That was the end of that... one guy ended up with some badly busted stones, and the other one had a rib- shoulder combo, and I am not talking about a pork plate... them guys really paid for their stupidity. While traveling through Colorado with my kids on vacation, we saw the billboards for the Movie Manor Hotel miles before we vote to Monte Vista.. we stayed there... you can see the movie from your hotel room and they piped the audio in. www.bestwesternmoviemanor.com/movie-manor/For novelty’s sake, it would be cool to take the grandkids someday if it wasn’t summertime in Arizona, Ron talking about Houston with their mosquitos... man, that would suck. I think I like the wide recliners at the cinema near me. |
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Post by Legend Lover on Jan 2, 2019 5:54:26 GMT -5
I don't think Ireland has ever had one - not that I know of anyway. I certainly never knew of any when I was growing up. I've missed out. Although, it would be hard to watch the film through the rain.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 6:07:03 GMT -5
I don't think Ireland has ever had one - not that I know of anyway. I certainly never knew of any when I was growing up. I've missed out. Although, it would be hard to watch the film through the rain. Nope, you never had one.......the parking lot and screen would take up half of Ireland. I’d much rather have some of your stunning views and the history of Ireland. Years ago there was plenty of places to go parking in Ireland without the annoyance of waiting for the windows to fog up due to the fact in a drive in you were so close to vehicles parked on both sides of you. While in my younger years our entire family went to drive in’s often, I always wondered about the odd noises from the vehicles parked next to us. I can remember asking my Mom ( Mum ) “ why are those cars jumping up and down “?.......lol |
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Post by kirk13 on Jan 2, 2019 6:20:35 GMT -5
I don't think Ireland has ever had one - not that I know of anyway. I certainly never knew of any when I was growing up. I've missed out. Although, it would be hard to watch the film through the rain. The only local place I could watch movies when I was little was a church hall in Portadown...otherwise it would have been a trek up to Belfast! Went to the drive-in a couple of times in South Africa before the multiplexes killed them off. I remember seeing Haunted Honeymoon and the Patsy Kline biopic |
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Post by pappyjoe on Jan 2, 2019 9:20:12 GMT -5
Last Drive-In I remember going to was near Cherry Hill, NJ in either 1981 or 82. By then the sound boxes you hung in your window was gone and you had to tune your radio to an FM frequency to hear the movie.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2019 10:12:16 GMT -5
Last Drive-In I remember going to was near Cherry Hill, NJ in either 1981 or 82. By then the sound boxes you hung in your window was gone and you had to tune your radio to an FM frequency to hear the movie. Yup, I remember using my radio at that drive in. I was living in Marlton NJ at the time right near the traffic circle of rt. 70 & rt. 73......Near Olga’s Diner. They had tax issues and closed down many years ago. Since then diner has been demolished. |
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Post by qmechanics on Jan 2, 2019 10:50:06 GMT -5
Drive in movies were largely extinct when I was growing up.So I thought a YouTube video was in order to illustrate the current state of drive in theaters..
If you can find one these days they very often look somewhat like this:
Still some exist like these
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Post by blackmouth210 on Jan 2, 2019 11:11:24 GMT -5
As far as I know they have all disappeared from Texas. Between the weather and the Mosquitoes it's hard to enjoy a movie outside. They used to fog for mosquitoes before the movie and at intermission. There is one just north of New Braunfels if you're ever in that area. I haven't been myself. But the online reviews are good. And the feedback I've been given from friends that have gone have all been positive. Hopefully I'll make it out there myself some day. I have many great memories of going to the drive-in as a kid with my family. A packed ice-chest and a packed car always made for good times. |
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Post by Pistol Pete 1911 on Jan 2, 2019 12:37:33 GMT -5
There are two in my area. The closest one is in Fayetteville, ar about 30 miles from my house the other one is in Joplin, mo which is about 50 miles from my door. We go to the Fayetteville one about twice a year, $7.50 for two movies is a good deal.
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Post by yaddy306 on Jan 2, 2019 12:42:57 GMT -5
There are only three left in my province. One is close to where we take the kids camping, so we saw "Antman and The Wasp".
It was nostalgic for me, and a novelty for the kids. But IMHO there are better ways to watch a movie.
I tried to tell the kids about the old days, when you clipped a static-y speaker to the window to hear the movie, rather than dialing in the FM radio. And how people drove away, forgetting to detach it. They looked at me like I had two heads.
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