Ever been to a drive-in movie?

[trof]

Or a drive-in restaurant?
Were the carhops on roller skates?

Don't see these much any more.

[Hugin]

1. There is only one drive-in in the area now...

*sigh*

Good times... Good times...

[Squatch]

2. Does Sonic count?

[Hugin]

4. Do they use roller skates?

No roller skates... Doesn't count.

[xmas74]

43. They used to on car club and 50's nights.

I used to carhop there years ago. On certain nights they encourage the carhops to dress up ala 50's Sockhop style and to wear roller skates, if they feel comfortable w/ them.

I loved those nights. In four hours I'd bring home $100 in tips and I was only 17!

[trof]

7. Sonic is the only one we have.

And now they have credit card readers in the carside menu thingy.
:eyes:

[MissMillie]

3. We used to go all the time when I was growing up

In fact, the drive-in theatre is STILL in operation near my home town.

[joeybee12]

5. When I was a kid, that's the only theater we went to!

Indoors were too expensive!

They were fun--pack up the neighborhood kids in the station wagon and head on over.

Sigh--good old days.

[trof]

10. Went in your jammies, too, dintcha'?

And during intermission my mom let me go to the concession stand in my jammies.
I was the only kid there in night-clothes, either.
:-)

[swag]

6. Yes, both.

Those were different times.
The poets studied the rules of verse, and the ladies, they rolled their eyes.

[Hugin]

8. Very poetic.

:thumbsup:

[jpgray]

23. Sweet.

[JanMichael]

9. Yes, yes and yes.

Then again I'm 37 (38 in May) and lived West of the Mississippi.

[trof]

11. Ever drive off with the speaker still hung on the window?

I did once.
Turned it in at the ticket booth.
That was before they started using steel cable that would rip your window out.

Now, no speaker.
Get the audio on an FM frequency on your radio.
It just ain't the same.

[Orsino]

12. Not since the seventies. n/t

[GOPisEvil]

13. Yes and yes.

I remember getting my my uncle's mid-'60s vintage Ford Station Wagon and heading to the drive in. I also went to the drive-in in Kerrville, TX while in high school. It's now a Wal-Mart. x(

There is a local drive-in restaurant here. It's featured in "Dazed and Confused". It's called Top Notch. No roller skates, but there is car service.

[trof]

14. Ever try to get a date with the carhop?

We did, all the time.
Never could.
"What time do you get off?"
"Too late for you, sonny."

[Paladin]

15. I Understand That Drive-Ins Are Making A Comeback

There was a feature on a new one on the 4/9 CBS Sunday morning news show.

I'd love to see one open in my area. I've gots lots of great memories about drive-ins, and who knows? With advances in technology, the speaker quality might be worth a flip now (although crappy speaker quality constitutes one of the charms of old-time drive-ins as I remember them).

[trof]

17. Just saw it. Inspiration for post.

[Hugin]

19. Let's just hope the fundies don't kill them again...

The reason drive-ins went away last time wasn't
entirely due to a lack of attendance.

It was a favorite axe-to-grind of the fundies.

They complained about all of the intimacy displayed
in the open air for all to see...

They even had specially edited "drive-in" versions
of movies which had any hint of physical affection
edited out.

Although, in those days the most such scenes amounted
to was two fully clothed people of opposite genders
hinting at activities near a bed and then there was
a cut to flowers blooming or fireworks. Wrapped up
by a scene of hair brushing and boot pulling on.

I guess they didn't see "Brokeback Mountain" on the
horizon. I wonder how showing that movie at a drive
in would go over.

[Paladin]

22. Wonder How The Fundies Would React......

....to a quaint old documentary film called "Birth of Triplets."

That's what was showing in Austin, TX back on high school graduation night, 1968. A bunch of us got a couple of six packs and parked behind the rear fence of the drive-in (we knew they wouldn't let us in as paying customers). We watched the flick through gaps in the tin fence; it had all the allure and sex appeal of a medical school gynecological text, but we were easliy satisfied back then.

I TOLD you I had a bunch of good memories about drive-ins. Long may they run.....

[redwitch]

42. My guess is the land was too valuable for drive ins

And it was sold off for malls and condos. That's what happened to the drive ins in Jersey where I grew up.

[Floogeldy]

29. You can find them at driveinmovie.com

There are still a few open.

Now, they transmit the soundtrack on an FM frequency instead of using speakers. :)

[kid a]

16. Yes - We have a drive on thats open in the summer! FUN in a pick-up

[trof]

18. Foggy windows.

Man, we didn't call it the "passion pit" for nothin'.
You'd look up after some serious "making out" and discover you'd suddenly gone zero visibility.
If the rent-a-cop saw foggy windows he'd come bang on the hood and tell you "I want to see heads above the seat."
Damn, that was embarrassing.
:-(

[peekaloo]

20. Lots as a kid. As a teenager we would have contests as to how many

people we could "smuggle" in. :-)

[trof]

21. Got caught doing that once.

Scared the bejesus out of us.
They just made everybody buy a ticket.
<whew>

[LeftyMom]

24. We still have a drive-in theatre here

I took my kid last year to see Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith there. One of the local veg restraunts is a drive-in (no carhops on rollerskates though.)

[auntAgonist]

25. We used to

go to the drive in movies a lot (back in the day hehe).
There was also an A&W Drive In we used to frequent about 20 years ago, it's not there anymore. :shrug:

aA

[Heidi]

26. First movie I ever saw was at a drive-in.

"True Grit," Lousiville, Kentucky, about 1970 or 1971. I was about six or seven years old. Between the change of reels, they showed a trailer for the "adult" film, "Fanny Hill," and my dad made my sister and me cover our eyes in the back seat. :rofl:

[Heidi]

27. Self-delete. Dupe. (nt)

[bertha katzenengel]

28. Yes to all three. I really miss drive-in movies.

:cry:

[Oeditpus Rex]

30. Yup. Yup. Yup.

First movie I ever saw was at a drive-in. Can't remember if it was "101 Dalmatians" or "The Shaggy Dog."

My sister was ramp manager of the Salinas 4 drive-in from 1973-74. I and anybody in the car got in free. I had a lot of friends then. :eyes:

Mel's Valley in the Sky was the teen hangout when I was 3 or 4. It had carhops on roller skates, and Coke made from carbonated water and syrup. If you knew the soda jerk, you could get extra syrup, or extra cherry syrup in a cherry Coke. The straws were paper, and you could blow the wrapper off 'em 15 feet on a good day.

When I was 17 or so, my cruisin' buddy and I ate at A&W almost every day. You ordered on the "squawk box," then the carhop came out and hung your food on your car window. No skates.

All three of those places are gone now. :cry:

[Left Is Write]

31. Yes and yes.

I've been to drive-in movies a lot, starting with the Lucky Twin Drive-In in Burnsville, MN; the one I went to most frequently was the late, lamented France Avenue Drive-In in Edina, MN.

When I was a kid, we had an A&W Drive-In restaurant with skating carhops. They had the Papa and Mama burgers and the Teenburger!

[Kat45]

32. A few times. Even went to a XXX drive-in once.

Bet they'd never allow one of those these days. We don't have any drive-ins left around here anyway.

[NNadir]

33. Oh yeah.

It was a long time ago. The last one I ever went to was in Wellfleet, MA in the 1990's. It was the last one I ever saw open.

When I was a teenager, we seldom watched the movies. I'd say more about that but sex threads aren't allowed.

[Bluzmann57]

34. Of course

Used to work in a restaurant right next to a local drive in theater and we snuck in a few times after work. And when I was a mere lad, my dad used to take us to a local drive in restaurant where the carhops were on roller skates.
A few words about drive in theaters. They were obviously great make out places, but they were also party heaven. Many many beers were drunk there as well as joints being smoked. I miss the old drive ins. Nothing quite like hiding people in the trunk so as to avoid paying for them to get in. Yep, that was common practice at most drive ins. Gawd I'm old.

[RevCheesehead]

35. I used to work at one.

My first job, as a matter of fact.

[blondeatlast]

36. Ice cold cokes in the ice chest, grocery bags full of home-popped

popcorn, my sisters in the back seat, me in pajamas in the middle on the front bench seat--

yup, I remember the drive-in movies well.

Siiiiigh....

[bigwillq]

37. I love drive-ins!

:bounce:

[trof]

38. Biggest drive-in movie money maker: Snow cones.

My uncle was part owner of a drive-in movie for a few years.
He said the cost of a 10 cent snow cone was about 1.5 cents, including the cup.
Some nights they made more money off the snow cones than they did the ticket sales.

[merh]

39. Sure, I've hidden in the trunk of an old Falcon with 3 others

until we got past the ticket booth and then we crawled out of the seat and watched the movie. 4 for the price of 1.

I also attended the movie with my boy friend who decorated the inside of his folks van with bean bags, thinking for sure he would hit a home run. He didn't, the movie was really, really good. ;)

[redwitch]

40. Oh yeah and I still go.

Friend owns a drive in theatre upstate, not too far from me.

[wildhorses]

41. yes to both

doesn't The Varsity in Atlanta still use roller skates? and so does the Sonic, right?

It has been a LONG time since I went to a drive-in movie...miss it

[trof]

44. My buddy's dad had a station wagon.

In the days before mini-vans.
It was a real woody.


He'd load up us kids, lawn chairs, picnic stuff, a portable grill, cooler, maybe a kitchen sink, too?
He'd back into the parking space, and put the chairs and all the other stuff out behind the wagon.

Before the break between the double features, he'd fire up the grill. I don't know how he got away with this, since he was "taking" business away from the concession stand. Maybe he tipped them heavy?

Anyway, we had burgers and dogs, hot off of his grill. Ice cold Cokes from the cooler for us kids (I think he may have included "adult beverages" for himself and the other grown-ups.).

Them was the days.