Drive-in theater nostalgia

[CalmerThanYou]

In my drive-in days I had to borrow my dads car. I think he was the only person on earth to order a yellow and black AMC Gremlin X with a V8.
Not really the ideal drive-in ride. Thankfully at that age I was far more limber and my gal was up for the challenge.

 

[Rustyt1953]

I had a '64 Thunderbird. Curse that center console.

 

[Model 19 6"]

I don't think I have had better popcorn than that from a paper bag.

 

[nachogrande]

PARADISE BY THE DASHBOARD LIGHTS!

Kinda hard to see the movie with steamed windows, & then driving away with the speaker still in the window.

 

[Lee in Quartzsite]

Better that some girl at the drive in snack bar informs your girl friend her sweater is inside out, than have her mom bring it up when you bring her home. How do I know this you ask? Her name was Kathy. Actually her mother was kinda cool about it, but boy were freaked out. Went like this.

What you two been up to? Watching a movie. Well, next time you watch a movie, put your sweater on right side out. Red faces and silence. Then she said " I watched movies in High school too. She never mentioned it again.

Oh no....wonder if it's the same girl cause my wife's name is Kathy?! Either that or girl's named Kathy can't figure out how to put on a sweater!

When we parked in front of her house her mom would blink the porch light when she thought we had been out there long enough...two blinks meant her dad would be coming out next.

 

[garddogg56]

Still alive and well in my home town of 3500 people. Swells to around 12,000 in summah. Last time I wemt the skeeters bout carried me off.

Oh ya Bridgeton drive instill open as is Pridescorner and Saco drive-in.

 

[GaryS]

They don't have wired speakers any more. At least the one near(ish) to me doesn't. Two different low power FM broadcast frequencies, so you just tune in with your car radio.

Kinda hard to see the movie with steamed windows, & then driving away with the speaker still in the window.

 

[Abbynormal]

I remember seeing "Who Shot Liberty Valance?" at the Tuscola drive in when I was 5. I fell assleep and didn't see the rest of the movie until the 80's!

 

[steelslaver]

Man this brings back memories.

Though we saw quite a few movies, Kathy and I never went all the way in HS. Ran into here years later one winter night. We met at a bar, went driving around in her moms 4x4 which she was driving. Slicker that snot and we went over this old bridge and slid off the road. Locket up hubs, couldn't get out, pushed and dug some snow and still stuck. Back in the cab warming up and stuff started happening. Yup, we finally did "it" and right in the middle of "it" lights lit up the cab and WHAM. Down on the floor board I went her on top of me. Tangled up in the shifters trying to get up and pants up. 2 guys we both knew did the same thing coming over the bridge and hit us right at the wrong time. Cops come, go to police station, file report and then she called her mom who came and picked us up. Good old mom.

I kid you not.

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Gosh, That brings back thoughts of long ago. They were known as "Passion Pits" in my day. Used to sneak in 7 guys imitating seats in a "34 Chevy. Last movie I saw the was "Yellow Sky" with Gregory Peck.

 

[erics]

There was a drive in on the west side of my city right beside a river. As the city grew it became encircled by development and as time went by it closed and was deserted for years. A very crafty developer eventually bought it when he figured out that the city had removed the building height restriction to accommodate the tall screen. He built a 30 story apartment block on the site.

 

[rwsmith]

The Drive in that specialized.....

You mean the passion pits? First time I got lucky was at one of those.

The drive in that specialized in x rated movies always had cars parked on the back row with steamed up windows or had cardboard or something in the windows with a little peephole out the front.

The very old time and nostalgic North 52 turned to showing porn in the later days. Thing was, the overpass behind the theater was a perfect vantage point, probably better than in the drive in itself. It wasn't long before the strung a bunch of bright lights across the back so you couldn't see the screen. There were too many accidents on that overpass.

The Flamingo became a junk yard and when you went back there to search out a part, the mounds were all still there with cars parked on them 20 years later.

Remember how DUSTY those places could get?

 

[Salty RI]

I had a '64 Thunderbird. Curse that center console.

When I was 16 my first car was a 57 Vette, my aunt could'nt understand why I was always borrowing her 50 Merc.[emoji1]

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[greenmachine]

Quote: When we parked in front of her house her mom would blink the porch light when she thought we had been out there long enough...two blinks meant her dad would be coming out next.

Happened to me once also. I unscrewed the light bulb.

 

[TX-Dennis]

Do you remember the Eagle Drive-In located off what is now I-20 in Pecos? A couple, Mr. And Mrs. Brown, who lived in an apartment under the big screen were the caretakers of the property. The Browns were friends of my parents. In May of 1958, during the evening movie, an electrical fire caused by the big neon sign on the front of the theater destroyed the place.

No one was hurt and many of the moviegoers sat in their cars and watched the fire destroy the screen and its structure while the movie kept playing.

Mrs. Brown later stated that the two things she regretted losing in the fire were her wedding dress and a .32 Colt pistol.

A little before my time. I was born in 1960. She sounds like a true West Texas gal, though.