Drive-In Movie Memories

[Pryderi]

there are still a few around. The last time I saw one was the "Spy Kids" or "Spy Kids 2" in Ohio. Before that, it was "Stripes" in the early 80s in upstate NY.

[texanwitch]

1. The good old days.

I would love to go to a drive in movie.

Wouldn't have to listen to the people around you.

It was safe for little kids to walk around in groups.

We were looking for teenagers who were not looking at the movie.

We would sneak up and scare them, and run away.

[mysuzuki2]

2. I thought there was a rule about sex threads?

[Silver Swan]

3. The McHenry Outdoor Theater

It's about nine miles from my house. This is the last weekend of the season, and they are showing Grease and The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

During the summer they show current films, but in September they switch to retro shows.

[Brother Buzz]

4. They show movies at Drive-Ins?

Who would have thunk it.

[MiddleFingerMom]

5. We used to sneak in through a hole in the back fence and sit on the ground near speakers...

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... and watch (what was for US at the time) "porn"... like "Valley of the Dolls".
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[fizzgig]

6. we still have one in my city

my husband and i caught up and star trek last summer or the one before that. took my dad's 88 buick electra station wagon, laid down the hatch and sat in the third seat, it was great.

didn't make it this year, tho

[pacalo]

10. I hope you brought one of these...

[sakabatou]

7. I know I went to one once

I have no idea what the movie was.

[av8rdave]

8. Waaaay back in the early 80s...

I was in the Air Force, based in the Phoenix area. A friend and fellow instructor bought this used car. It was a late 60s Caddy convertible with EVERY bell & whistle on it and very low miles.

It was the perfect drive-in car! We would put the top down, and he and his wife would sit in the front and my ex (wife at the time) would sit on top of the back seat back with a cooler full of beer on the seat between us.

Last movie I remember seeing in that car was Ghostbusters - a brand new release at the time.

[pacalo]

9. I can't remember what my very last one was, but it's one of these...

"Candid Camera's What Do You Say To a Naked Lady?" or "The Seven-Ups".

[whistler162]

11. IIRC... the last drive in I went to we saw Goldfinger

first run, or at least a early Bond movie.

[rurallib]

12. when the kids were quite young (25 years ago)

we'd pack up the station wagon with the dog, two little girls and Mrs. Lib and I.
Then we would all be asleep shortly after the movie started and I would wake up when the lights came on.

[Shagbark Hickory]

13. Been to many a drive-in. Where I'm from they were plentiful. n/t

[Joe Fields]

14. Favorite drive-in memory? A head full of acid while watching the Exorcist...

I never laughed so hard in my life. Literally thought I would bust a gut. My brother and I were in his Cutlass convertible, with the top down and it started raining. We laughed about that too, and left the top down.

[Blue_Tires]

15. When I was in college in the late 90s there were still a couple in Atlanta

I went there on dates whenever I could...My first car was a Chevy Blazer so there was plenty of room to stretch my dates out...

Oh, the movies?? IIRC, the last time I went it was a double feature: "I still know what you did last summer" and the "Psycho" remake...fun times!!

[sinkingfeeling]

16. We have one that only opens during the spring and summer. Last thing I saw there was 'Toy Story 3'.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

17. I haven't been since about 1975

I was in graduate school living in a house with three other people. We took four lawn chairs and a cooler full of wine and other drinks to the drive-in theater and sat outside the car watching Barbarella, which was already a couple of years old.