My First Trip to a Drive-In

[Beth Larpenter-Shurbutt]

I kept calling it a "Drive Thru" theater! :basic02

This is a little drive-in theater near Anniston. We went to see "Meet the Robinsons" and had a blast. The cost was $10.00 per car/van load and you tune in to hear the movie with your auto radio.

Beth

[Dana Grant]

I kept calling it a "Drive Thru" theater! :basic02

This is a little drive-in theater near Anniston. We went to see "Meet the Robinsons" and had a blast. The cost was $10.00 per car/van load and you tune in to hear the movie with your auto radio.

Beth

How cute, Beth! I have to say that I've never been to a drive-in theater. That one looks like it would be fun, I've never seen one that small before! I'm not even sure that Tucson has a drive-in anymore!

[Judy Hamilton]

Drive -in Movies were the way my folks out of our overworked
window cooler cooled hot house in Dallas when I was a small girl.
We spent many evenings At the Drive In Movies. Can remember playgrounds in front of the movies..and of course the screen
was set high above the play ground equipment

The speakers were next to the cars.do not know if one could sit in front of the car and hear the movie.

Judy

[Barb Bouldrey]

My favorite memory of family fun as a child was "Buck Night" at the drive-in movie.

Mom would load up the Rambler station wagon with her 7 kids, grocery sack of popcorn, milk jug of Koolaide, pajamas and pillows. We would play on the playgroun until it was dark enough to start the movies.

It would start with a couple of Looney Tunes cartoons and would include a Disney film, a Warner Brothers western and about 5 cartoons in between. Mom would put the youngest kids in their pajamas at half time since they would be asleep before the last movie ended.

A single mom raising 7 kids entertained her family on $1, homemade popcorn and koolaide.

I went to my last drive-in movie the week before I left to attend Olivet.

I did not know there were any drive-in movies still in the U.S.

Barb

[Joel Merrill]

There aren't any drive-in theaters left around here. I don't know why. Storms have taken a lot of them but there have always been storms. Perhaps they can't get insurance anymore. There used to be one in a town near us. It was in the same neighborhood as a trailer park. Talk about a tornado magnet. A storm took the drive-in (but not the trailer park) and it was never rebuilt. It sat that way for years and was finally torn down.

Joel

[Jill Mickelson]

We have friends who own a resort. They have a movie outdoors every weekend. I told them to advertise. Have people pay. (Not those staying at their resort) I do believe many would want to see a movie outdoors. Especially up here in our land of lakes and woods. It'd be a neat setting!

[Doris Grant]

We have one about an hour away but we have never been to it. I remember going once or twice as a child. Sure does bring back memories.

Doris

[Gina Stevenson]

My memory of drive-in movies? Long ago, we'd try to keep the speaker inside the car with the window rolled up as far as the speaker would permit, due to mosquitoes! Those nasty, pesky things can ruin so many otherwise nice times ... looks like you had fun, Beth. They're gone from here ... long ago. Now, the piece of land where it used to be becomes a Saturday flea market every weekend when it's decent weather. There's a theatre built right next to it now that has "up-teen" screens (20-something? don't recall).