Went to the drive in
Ditch-Runner
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It's been many years since we had went to the local drive in
It's complety surrounded by houses and apartments now. it was in the country away from every thing when I as a kid , it opened in 1956 I found out and has to be one of the last ones left
Any way youngest son and DIL ask us to go along with the grand kids the drive in is playing the new movie" twister" second was original "jaws" movie
It was $ 9.00 each to get in and if you wanted to bring in your own drinks and snacks it was another $5.00 LOL
They really pushed you had to use the conession stand to buy all the goodies
They ask as we entered if any food with us
I am guessing honor system and guilt pressure to get the people to comply all kinds of signs and even an announcement on screen before the show started to buy only at the concession stand
A lot of history for me at the old drive-in, but that's stories for another day
As for The movie "Twister"
My wife and I thought it was boring and dragged out too much .
The special effects were OK but not what I was expecting based on commercials
But we really only went to spend time and have a nice evening with the family any way , so all good
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always enjoyed going to a drive in movie
None exist around here anymore.
Bob Seger - 'Night Moves' was both aspirational and inspirational.
Brad Steele
I used to go when I was young, hard to see the screen through fogged up windshield! 😜
Back when times were good, take me home country roads.
Remember putting the speaker in your window lol- now you get it on your radio. You gave me an idea ditch, there is one about 50-60 miles from me-I think I am going to make the trek when it cools down some-)
Can't forget the old speakers
I am sure many were torn away from the post back then as sleepy drivers pulled away after the movie
The local place even provided small heaters in late fall early winter I think they wete short lived but they tried
I noticed they now rent radioes my first time to the conesion stand A 1/2 mile longline the people in front of me were hoping they still had some just then a gal came out and anounced " no more radios all rented out for the night
oh just remembered back in the day. Get your rain shield a small plastic tarp to keep your windshield dry , available in the conession stand of course. lol
One last PG rated for GB
I remember the guys with the flashlights wondering the lots during the movies checking cars
Let's just say I was busted many times in non movie activities and due to being hot and summer time , my date and I had shead our hot clothes oh well LOL
I have memories of the fellow who ran the place being robbed even clubbed on the head taking walking back with the money from the ticket booth to the conssion stand many times
why they didn't use a car to do it I never got that part I am sure they caught on
Was the sound still on the old style speakers or some type of Wi-fi or ?
$9. wow, we used to go when they had "car load night" as many folks as you could cram into a car for $2.
(we also used to put about four guys into the trunk when it was regular priced tickets @ $1.00).
For many years now every one has Use your car radio or a found out will rent you one for the night
Not sure what or how good did I did not se one
My son had a dewalt radio and the car closest to us also had the same dewalt set up
A lot of the people including us sat in lawn chairs
We took along a jacket and or blankets same with every lne i saw for the kids or themselves. The low was in the 50's for the night
We did not stay for the second movie as it was jaws any way
A great move in it's day by the way
Bullshot
They Use to have car load nights and many of my buddies did the trunk ride entrance as countless others have
My dad lied about our age for years we were stuck at nine to eleven Years old for years LOL
One Night eight of us just hopped the fence and got busted 1/2 thru the first show Not Good
Too long to post the story and its a fuuny one . but short version it involved a bunch of teenage boys running thur a bean field ..
That made me chuckle. I am imagining being at the drive in back in the day. Most of us had old beaters for cars when we were in High School… If we had to use our radio for all the movies, a bunch of us would have needed a jump to get home.. 🙃
I remember my not so skinny friend Henry getting in the trunk (actually the hood) of my '65 VW to get in the drive-in for free. We had to stuff him in and press really hard to get the hood/trunk closed while he was grunting the whole time. After we got in and I pulled the release for the hood it shot up like a rocket. My other 2 friends and I were rolling laughing and about that time the guy with the flash light that roamed the lot saw us and threw us all out without a refund for the rest of us. He didn't think it was funny but we were a bunch of goofy teens. 😀
Lol, too funny
A LONG time ago, there was a drive-in on the east side of Dallas, the Lone Star. It burned down long ago, but my friends and I went there a few times.
It specialized in porn. There was a sign at the entrance: "TRIPLE XXX RATED…NO ONE UNDER 18 AFMITTED…IDs WILL BE CHECKED…CHILDREN UNDER 12 FREE!!! Not kidding.
We'd bring beers and snacks and watch the show. It's the same old in and out, boring after 15 minutes or so. We saw a few Mom, Dad, and Kids in the family station wagon. Kids in pajamas on a pallet in the back. I wonder how Mom and Dad kept them from looking at the screen.
Last time I was there, I took my wife at the time, my second ex. She said she had never seen an X-rated movie and wanted me to take her to one. So I did. It was boring, as usual. Not long after, the place closed down and then burned.
That man had no sense of humor at all. That story is damn funny!!! 🤣
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My first wife and I used to go to th e drive in a lot . One of ours was also rated x. Fun times .
Nun̈n (David)
Thanks for the reminder
Their use to be a drive in at the iintersection of two state highways about twenty miles from where I live now,( Bell center, Oh wasvthe place . ) was it's location middle of nowhere )
1st movie was normaly a PG or R rated i guess due to it was in view of both highways ,then the next two or three it were almost a all night deal we re all xxx . I re member we 1st timeI went it was a long way from the Disney movies I was use to watching OMG had no idea such places or movies in public existed
We took many a date(s) to the place over a couple of summers
Once a ticket guy ask are those girls all 18 or older
Went like this
Well, of course, , they are n st no ID with them
OK but just remember your boys will be going to jail with me if there not
Of course nothing came of it
They closed down the drive in many years ago but it w as a wild experence while it lated for countless people
I really haa Is very no idea how long I t had been their
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We have 6 drive ins left statewide. Closest one is about 90 minte drive from home. Growing up we had 2 in town and 6 or 7 within maybe a 20 minute drive.