Lights off its almost Showtime

[Jim Demmitt Jr]

"Last drive-in on the left"

Who remembers the old Drive-In's? did you ever get a chance to take your best gal to a drive-in? Nice hot pocorn them awesome hot dogs the sodas and ice cream ohhhhhhh the good old days.Turn your headlight's off its almost showtime grab a ticket at the box office

Here is a neat web site injoy
http://www.lastdriveinontheleft.com/2.html

[Andy 94SC]

"Last drive-in on the left"

Who remembers the old Drive-In's? did you ever get a chance to take your best gal to a drive-in? Nice hot pocorn them awesome hot dogs the sodas and ice cream ohhhhhhh the good old days.Turn your headlight's off its almost showtime grab a ticket at the box office

Here is a neat web site injoy
http://www.lastdriveinontheleft.com/2.html

We still have drive-ins here, two that I know of within a 20 minute drive...

[CMac89]

I don't remember.

[Jim Demmitt Jr]

We still have drive-ins here, two that I know of within a 20 minute drive...



Drive-in's

We have one left in Sacramento you can see whats left on a few others old rotted ticket booths weeds all over. Its kinda sad there all going to walk in theaters kinda takes the fun out bringing your hot rod or muscle car with your hot girl injoying the show :-) We had a big drive-in Thunderbird drive-in you would see some awesome muscle cars in the late 60's early 70's and it had a big A&W drive-in on the corner after the movie we all go there

[Jim Demmitt Jr]

I don't remember.


Young Baby Booooooom

Your mom and dad might remember :-) I remember the first movie I seen was the original Blob and the 68 Mustang Bullitt movie

[SuperCharged91]

We have one in wichita

[Jim Demmitt Jr]

We have one in wichita

That's Neat

At least there are some still around I remember watching Speed Vision Lost Drive-In with Bruce Stern that was neat. We had lots of fun back in the days ever time you see one shut down rotting away weeds tall gives you a strange feeling of time gone by

[fturner]

Its a shame they died off like that. I remember going to the one out at Stony Creek which is about 1/2 hour drive from here.... not sure if its still open though.

[Miller]

Jim I remember going once right befor the only local one closed down. I went and saw coneheads. theres one upstate that i pass sometimes on college tour 07' that i always say I want to go to when im up there...

I miss rollerrinks.. theres one left that i found on LI.. going to have to hit it up befor it goes down too

[Jason Wild]

I rember the drive-in's there were a lot more of them when I was a kid but there is still 3 or 4 in a 30 to 45 min driving range.

[99GSXR750]

The last one around here was turned into a Lowes and Target at least 10 years ago. I remember going there regularly in the early 90's.
It's depressing, sort of like how the old smaller amusement parks have closed down.
Mike

[frdlvr30]

They have been gone from around here for atleast 20 years. There were two and both are condo/townhome communities. The last one i went to was in Henderson, KY in 1997. I do miss them a lot.

[95_XR7]

It's sad, I'm younger than alot of you guys, and I even remember the drive-ins. I remember going to one in my dad's 1972 Ford Gran Torino with the 429 before it got hit and totaled.

Drive-in are always fun.

[Tin-Knocker105]

I grew up outside of Detroit.
The Michigan Drive In in Southgate had a small amusement park right in front of the screen. A few rides and such. Late 50's early 60's
Then just before the show started everybody headed for their cars rolled up the windows and a truck would drive thur the aisles fogging for mosquitoes. God i can imagine what they used. probably full strength DDT.

With 7 kids we didn't get much from the snack br, we brought our own popcorn as well. Half a grocery sack one in front and one in back.
and a few lawn chairs out side too.

Now when i was in high school in California, we had a Drive-In in Newbury Park. Early 70's
A friend of our worked there so it was free to get in. He'd see us in line and wave us around everybody and thru the gate.
We used to park a couple cars to or three apart and fill the space with chairs.
I think we saw "Live And Let Die" 10 or so times.we drank beer but didn't get to rowdy. So we had a good time.
But if you went with you girl friend you parked way in the back, ya know.

Now the drive- in in Newbury Park was closed down for years, the demolished it. and a few years later the put a Kohl's and a bunch of small eateries.
I do have on of the old speakers in my garage somewhere, i'll give it to my son and he can bring it to the Antiques Road Show.
Well got to go...
Watching "Balls of Fury" dvd Big Screen TV.
well now we know why they aren't around any more.
Movie Theaters are next

[quicktsi]

I think we have 1 left in OKC on the south side of town. Used to be 1 about 2 miles from our house on US66. It closed and at one point was a golf driving range. Now it is just overgrown with weeds.

[the-big-e]

One of the last one left in Charlotte, NC went to showing XXX movies about 25 years ago.....:D

We could get up on the roof of my friends house and watch......

Now it is a parking lot.....:(

[Jacob_Royer]

Mitchel indiana (15minutes) still has a drive-in and georgetown (35mins) but i have not been to one in about 10 years! I need to go keep saying im going to so my kids can see what its like.. My town has one but they use it for a junk yard now :( been like that for about 10 years or so...

[Jim Demmitt Jr]

The Thunderbolts

We had a car cruise with the Sacramento Thunderbolts car club we all went to A&W drive in to meet together. Than we all cruised to the Sacramento drive-in it was there last show before closing forever we went ideling in with my 427 Galaxie XL R code factory car and its making some good ford HP vibration all looking as there was regular familys there. We had a section ropped off for the club its was fun we met lots of Hot Rodders talking of the old days the movie was playing James Dean Rebel without a cause and Bikini Beach with Franky Avalon and Tommy Ivo's dragster was in it :-) if any of you ever met T.V. Tommy Ivo in person he is a class act great person and one hell of a driver

[mannysc]

we still have drive in movies and drive in fast food complete with girls on skates, ala happy days ,

also we have street cruises few time a year down town even open header cruise ,

we have a drivein here that sections off the parking lot and has burnout contest complete with liability releases.

[acb92sc]

Theres still two left in the Buffalo/ Niagara Falls area.... only seasonal w/ the weather and all.... I went to the last show of the year in October and it was 31 degrees out. Way to f'in cold even with a lady next to ya!

[Mike Puckett]

When I was a teenager back in the 60's the drive-in was the place to go on a date. I went to many a submarine race at the drive-in. You guys remember the submarine races don't you? How else could you explain the little feet print marks on the headliner? I lost my virginity at the drive-in in a Volkswagen!
Does anyone remember the #1 movie at the drive-in back then? It was Thunder Road with Robert Mitchum. A true classic. If you younger guys have never seen it, try to find a copy at a video store. It's a great movie.

[David Neibert]

I always enjoyed going to the drive-in, especially when in High School ;). Knowing what goes on there, I was kind of glad they all started closing down before my daughters got to be teenagers.

David

[Jim Demmitt Jr]

No wonder I like FORD's

My parents always told me I was first thought of in my dads hot rod 55 Ford in a drive-in :-) I always wished I could be young in the mid 50's the hot rod days gone by but I sure miss the drive-in's on friday nights in town