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smartpatrol 
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 Topic: Have You Ever Seen A Movie At A Drive In?Posted: April 16 2012 at 13:38 |
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Sadly I was born after the fall of Drive ins. Infact, I was born after the internet
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Atavachron
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Posted: February 29 2012 at 21:46 |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: February 29 2012 at 11:25 |
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Yeah, I heard about that, but back then... that's all you had
ROTFLMAO... Amazing and utterly ubuesque 
Well, I wouldn't dare starting it.... I'd instantly get the Tea Party's KKK followers on my case, since I'm not a United Statian...
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Sean Trane
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Posted: February 29 2012 at 11:20 |
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get your amo supply on your way to your bank hold-up and not be late for the rendez-vous, right?? And down half a bottle of JD to get your courage up to it!!
Yup, sounds like DOUBLE SHOT deal... two shots in one stone
What's next?? a hire-your-gangster drive-thru franchise??
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I bet it was a teen comedy with kids screwing their girlfriends in the back seat, while a serial killer was lurking in the cars ??Edited by Sean Trane - February 29 2012 at 11:33 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Atavachron
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 23:01 |
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 this is turning into a fun thread; anybody remember Drive In ? A bad 70s cult flick which of course was shown frequently at, yes, drive-ins |
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Barbu
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 22:54 |
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Star Wars in '77. When they blew up that Death Star, that 3 and a half year old brat was really impressed. Probably my earliest memory.
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Man With Hat
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 22:34 |
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No. But if i could find one around here I would def go.
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect. |
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 15:15 |
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What's the problem with a drive in liquor store?
 You are making the presumption that people who use them are driving drunk and can't stumble out of their cars to walk in. Oh and by the way, that's actually a drive thru in the picture and if you're going to drive thru a liquor store... Edited by Slartibartfast - February 28 2012 at 15:18 |
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Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:37 |
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Could be worse I guess...
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
Albert Camus |
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:24 |
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Why is that a counter-intuitive idea? I use one every weekend. It's pretty great. |
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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Equality 7-2521
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:23 |
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Lol what? |
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"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "
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akamaisondufromage
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:13 |
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Drive in Worship
Yes Do it do it!
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Help me I'm falling!
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:10 |
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I just turned 46,not exactly a spring chicken.
 I remember the days of the speakers,but they haven't been used at our local drive in since the 70's. |
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 14:04 |
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Oh I think we have much more egregious examples of American decadence than drive-in movies, my friend. This is a related one I find particularly appalling (drive-in churches). Almost as bad as drive-in liquor stores, which are about as counter-intuitive an idea as any I've ever seen. In fact, "Examples of American Decadence" sounds like a great thread topic!
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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Matthew T
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 13:58 |
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We had them everywhere in the sixties and seventies. Still have one going near my house in Melbourne. They used to give you two films, now it is only one and like the cinema, they clear out the Drive In and put another audience in. No more putting the speaker in window, you just tune in the car radio to the Drive In frequency for the movie's audio. They used to have swings for the kids just near the screen and I still took my kids when they were little as well.
Do you know how many girlfriends I took to the Drive In? Used to go all the time. Cheap date
They got rid of many here due to Land values. They all have beautiful shopping Malls or ram jam packed apartments on them now. ( agents term for putting a extra twenty grand on the price) Apartments were called flats here originally till the eighties.)
I saw "Apocalypse Now" on the day we had Ash Wednesday ( huge bushfire). I was in the metro area of the state and the day had got to 44 or 110 degrees and I was with my soon to be wife and the wind changed and all the dust , ash and soot from the fires came with it. I just had shorts on and was covered in sh*t which just stuck to me due to the sweat all over me.
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Slartibartfast
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 11:29 |
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And that's just at the indoor movie theaters.  Oh, I'm sorry, that's sticky floors, obnoxious loud talking fellow movie goers, and stale popcorn for the indoor ones. I think with HD TV and home theater systems, the indoor movie theaters will join the drive in ones as mostly a thing of the past. Edited by Slartibartfast - February 28 2012 at 11:36 |
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Tapfret
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 11:15 |
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My most vivid memory of a drive-in experience was with my mom and dad who took me with them to see a double feature of "Tunnel vision" and "Up in smoke". These were funny movies to a 9-year-old. Saw them later in life and gawd are they awful.
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TheProgtologist
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 10:15 |
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They haven't had those speakers for ages.You tune in to a certain frequency on your car radio.
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Sean Trane
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Posted: February 28 2012 at 07:32 |
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Once only, and mostly to say I'd done it... Couldn't possible remember which turd I saw that night, but it was more of the party idea (beers & doobies) It's one of the most blatant form of American-styled western decadence, IMHO (although I confess having eaten at drive-in fast- foods some more times
 ) ... Never thought it was a correct way to watch a movie.... those stupid speakers that you had to hang out from your window... HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY GIVE YOU A GOOD SOUND? what if it rains??Not sure, but in the wider Toronto area (roughly 5M people),there was only one drive-in movie (in Oakville, if memory serves) ...
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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ClemofNazareth
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Posted: February 27 2012 at 21:21 |
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My parents used to take us to drive-ins in Montana when I was a kid in the late 60s and early 70s. It was cheap entertainment for a family of six on a limited budget and only three channels of TV at home (including the Canadian Broadcasting station). The first movie I remember seeing there was Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid with Paul Newman, Robert Redford and the very lovely Katharine Ross around 1970, and we were treated to a little side-nipple shot of Ms. Ross We also saw Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, a Clint Eastwood movie that was filmed in my hometown of Great Falls, Montana and which included a scene where my old middle school was blown up. A bunch of us kids from the neighborhood got to watch that being filmed from down the street. When I was a teenager in Kansas a lot of us used to go to the drive-in near the Wichita East mall and watch stuff on the weekend like The Wall, FM, Heavy Metal and The Rocky Horror Picture Show plus a lot of Clint Eastwood and Charles Bronson movies. That theater was torn down in the mid-eighties and I went by to pick up a few bricks from the concession stand to use as bookends in my apartment. During college at Wichita State in the mid-eighties there were weekends with horror movie marathons from the Friday the 13th and Halloween series at the Starlight on South Hydraulic. That theater is still active today. And one of my brothers and I used to make road trips to Kansas City on summer weekends to the Boulevard drive-in and get hammered while sitting in front of our car. One night he got so drunk he passed out and I left him there. He wasn't too happy when he trudged up the street to our hotel at dawn with a bent up lawn chair under his arm There are a couple near where I live now that have both been around for more than 60 years, but I haven't been to either of them yet. Kind of hard to imagine my kids getting excited about a big fuzzy screen, mosquitoes and stale popcorn when they have HD TV and Blu-Ray players at home, but drive-ins were pretty cool in their time. |
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"Peace is the only battle worth waging."
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