June 6th, 79th Anniversary of the Drive-In Theater. Post Your Favorite Drive-in story.

[bluesbassman]

Mine involved a station wagon, a friend, and about five crazy buddies jumping up and down on the bumper at a most in-opportune moment.

I really miss those things. Last one locally closed in the mid-eighties.

Link to story on the history of Drive-Ins.
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/06/dayintech_0606

[petronius]

1. Thanks! I knew there was some sort of historical significance to June 6, I just couldn't

remember what it was...


(Seriously, we still have a drive-in here, and I've never been. I'll kick myself if it closes before I take that trip down memory lane.)

[Burke36]

4. Thanks! I knew there was some sort of historical significance to June 6, I just couldn't

[IMG][/IMG]much appreciated

[Art_from_Ark]

2. My two experiences at a drive-in theater

were both as a young teen, at the long-defunct Grove Drive-In in Springdale, Arkansas. In one experience, there was a double feature that was showing "Adam and Eve" and "Private Duty Nurses", both of which featured a fleeting view of a woman's bare breast, which might have been enough to arouse me at that tender age if they hadn't been *so* fleeting

The other experience I remember was in the summer watching a British film titled "Molested" about a serial rapist in a small English town who was described as "looking like the devil". One of the final scenes of that movie was particularly chilling; it showed the rapist trying hard to break into a potential victim's stalled car. In a shot of him being illuminated by the car's rear lights, he did, indeed, look like the devil. There was a lot of spontaneous screaming from the audience during that scene.

[fizzgig]

3. we still have one here in town

i go every couple of years, i always mean to go more often but just never make it. i wanted to catch one of the current screens, but have been working so much.

a few months before we got married, my husband and i took my dad's 88 wood paneled buick station wagon, which is actually the most amazing drive-in car. laid the tailgate down, sat in the third seat and snuggled. we snuck in a few beers and watched up and star trek. up made me boohoo, to which my husband replied 'it's just a cartoon.'

[Archae]

5. I was the projectionist at the Stardusk theater here in Sheboygan for a season.

1981, showed a lot of slasher movies and grade-z monster films like "Demonoid."

Also showed "Popeye" and the "Blues Brothers."

And the T and A movies.
(Hey, I was 21, and you bet I enjoyed those!)

They had real FOOD!
Burgers, hot dogs! Fries!

Not that butter-flavor fluffed air they call popcorn nowadays and the $5 sodas.

[Luciferous]

6. I had a similar drive-in experience lol

I spent a lot of time at the drive-in growing up. My dad took me all the time when I was little, and when I was a teenager I dated a boy who worked at the drive-in. We spent a lot of time smoking weed and watching movies
The drive-in in my hometown is still open- I should take my kids next time we go for a visit.

[HopeHoops]

7. Mine involved my wife, but it isn't fit for public consumption.

[Blue_Tires]

12. I have a couple of similar stories with GFs in college

[yellowcanine]

13. If it was your wife couldn't you just have gone home?

[HopeHoops]

17. Ya gotta do what ya gotta do when ya gotta do it.

[FloridaJudy]

8. Mine is G-rated

I remember my parents dressing my sister and me in our jammies, and taking off to the drive-in. We'd both fall asleep in the back seat sometime during the second movie, and our parents would leave us there until they'd driven home and carried us to our beds.

These days, you'd be arrested for child abuse if you did that. Carseats? Hell, they didn't even have seatbelts back then!

[livetohike]

9. Saw The Deerhunter at a drive-in in Pgh. with

the blast furnaces of the local steel mill (where my Dad worked) glowing in the sky behind the screen . It was surreal.

[pipi_k]

10. Got two of 'em actually

1. As a youngster we visited some cousins in another state a lot and stayed over. My adult cousin had a job cleaning up a drive in movie place, so my two sisters and I would go with him and his two daughters to help out. I was maybe 11 or 12. We would walk around the grounds and pick up trash. We found some...er...interesting stuff. And we got to have all the leftover popcorn and soda we wanted. Fun times!!


2. Sometime during the late 60s, I was a teenager. Went to the drive-in with some other kids to see "Alice's Restaurant". Lots of joints being passed around, plus some cheap wine. Needless to say, I don't remember the movie. The End.

[murielm99]

11. The drive-in here is still open.

It is only a few miles from my house. They show first run movies there. A nice retired couple runs the place. One of my daughter's friends worked there when he was in high school. They were super nice to all the kids who worked for them. We saw one of the Pirates of the Caribbean movies there.

[yellowcanine]

14. I remember people sometimes driving off with the speaker still attached to the car window.

That cord would only stretch so far.....

[GoCubsGo]

15. I saw "Blazing Saddles" with my family at the drive-in.

My family is big on bathroom humor, so we were in stitches during the scene where they sat around the campfire, eating beans and farting.

The last movie I ever saw at a drive-in was "The Blues Brothers". I saw that with my sisters and and a friend.

We have a working drive-in in the next town over. It's a 2-screen theater. Haven't been to it, unfortunately.

[Go Vols]

16. I remember

putting people in the trunk of my dads Cadillac and sneaking them in.

[Auggie]

18. I worked in the concession stand of a Drive-In near Cleveland ...

The guy who ran it recycled unsold popcorn. Open tubs would sit out all evening under warming lights, attracting moths and bugs that would die and fall into the tubs during the evening. He resold it the next night. Really disgusting.

We sold what was probably the worst pizza ever. Everything came pre-made from food service -- crust with the consistency and flavor of cardboard, cheap Mozzarella-style cheese and bland tomato sauce. We assembled the pizza by hand though, and I felt so bad for people buying these that when I made them I gave people a lot of extra pepperoni (that was the one edible ingredient). People bought a lot of that crap.

On the weekends, when I worked, it was abuzz with all sorts of employees with all sorts of weird personalities. When I saw the movie Car Wash for the first time the characters and goings-on reminded me exactly of this Drive-In. I always thought there could be a funny movie about an evening at one. Someday I may write that screenplay.

[RebelOne]

19. My ex-husband (at that time my boyfriend) and I

would sneak all of our friends into the drive-in. There would be two in the truck and two on the floor in the back seat.