Have You Ever Seen A Movie At A Drive In?

There's websites devoted to drive-in theatres and keeping track of which ones are still operational.  Here's one.

The Lynn Drive-In in Strasburg, Ohio (a wide place in the road about 15 miles south of Canton) is the second oldest continuously operating drive-in in the country.




Edited by zappaholic - February 27 2012 at 17:06

Slartibartfast wrote: Sneaking in people in the trunk was an essential part of the drive in experience.

I remember being thrown in the trunk with a flashlight and promises of candy if I kept quiet. I was deathly afraid of the dark as a young kid, but I never blew my cover.

Sneaking in people in the trunk was an essential part of the drive in experience.

frippism wrote: What's a movie? Good god I can be so witty I still don't understand how I live with myself. And no, drive-ins sound annoying.

How dare you be so beautiful?

Are you kidding?  If you have comfy car seats and a decent sound system it can be a lot of fun.

Hey we still have one functioning six screen drive in in the Atlanta area.  http://starlightdrivein.com/#/movies/.

I think that may have been the one the family went to when I was kid and they had a double feature of Young Frankenstein and The Towering Inferno.  Memory is a little fuzzy but...

It's pretty much a US thing then isn't it?   It was really big in the 50's.

But for the few surviving ones the audio is on radio.  In the older days they had this speaker for you to bring in off a pole and hang on the sill of your car window.



Edited by Slartibartfast - February 27 2012 at 14:15

Yes.  A few times as a kid my parents took me.  I remember seeing Bambi at the Drive-In while laying/sitting in the back of our station wagon.  Most recently, about 10 years ago I remember seeing the Casper movie at the Drive-in.  I think that it might have been a double feature, but I can't remember what the 2nd movie was, or if I even stuck around to watch it.

I'm not sure we've ever had a 'drive in' here in the UK. The weather is too terrible for such things.

AlexDOM wrote: Yes, when I lived in Tennessee there was a really nice one around where I lived. Two screens with two film each. food was much better than normal concessions as well as cheaper. For two back to back movies it was like $7 too:) A real gem!!!

Deloocious hot doggies one after the other?

/who's old enough to remember that?

yes Northern Cal still had a few when I was a kid, the two I remember seeing were Bambi and much later Die Hard  
 -- kinda fun if you like sitting in a freezing cold car with the window rolled down to allow for the pumpkin-sized speaker which sounded like crap to be heard as you squinted to see the ancient, tattered screen with an unfocused image and braving the crowds to get some "food" avoiding the roaming derelicts and drug pushers as you made your way back and to the realization that whatever was happening in the car was far more interesting than what was happening on the screen.

Yep, I think the last one I saw was WALL-E and another one.... Get Smart maybe? It was a few years ago and it was a double feature. I've seen a number of movies at the drive-in, though. Used to go there all the time as a kid as well.

Finnforest wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: Finnforest wrote: I wonder where kids hang out in public these days?   Pubs Was talkin' more about the middle teens....13-16s....