Doe anybody still have drive-in movie theaters in their town

[Cosmo Kramer]

Our last one is set to close tomorrow after 58 years. They are making way for another strip-mall......just what we need more fucking starbucks....We had some good times there...sad to see it go :(

[Wolfman]

Last one near me up in North Fort Myers closed a couple years ago. One summer (1973) two other guys and myself ran one back in CNY. Wild times and lots of funny stories ! Remember popping up big bags of popcorn---packing some soda and beer in a cooler---putting PJs on the kids and going out for a night a film entertainment ?? Glory times !!

[MiketheangrydrunkenCUfan]

I think there are two, maybe three drive-ins in the greater PHX area. Still haven't been to any of the ones out here, although Zombieland and District 9 looks like a pretty solid double feature, so that could change shortly.

When I was a freshman at UC-Riverside in the early 90s, we used to drop acid and go see Alladin and Home Alone 2 at the local drive-in. Fun times...

[MgoBlue-LightSpecial]

I was thinking to myself, this is exactly the type of thread wolfman would post in. Sure enough, dude chimes in with the first response. bwahahahaa

[Rack Fu]

They actually just built a new drive-in theater in the Houston area a couple of years ago.

http://www.theshowboatdrivein.com/welcome.html

[Diogenes]

We still have two in San Diego county- South bay in Chula Vista (just north of the border) and Santee drive in ( just west of the desert). The one in Santee is okay...

[TIGRDOG]

Wow.
Haven't been to one of those since 70's...I can't tell you where one is either.

Of course we would do the mandatory thing of sneaking peeps in , in the trunk...

Most of the ones I knew turned porn....and one had a screen situated in such a way as to face the interstate :D

All gone now , of course.

[Wolfman]

The one I worked at had the screen visible from a main road, so we could not show the X-rated versions of some of those "raunchy" 70's flicks; had to use the R-rated versions of such classics as "Teen-Age Tramps" and "The Naughty Stewardesses". Funny shit.

[Diogenes]

Of course we would do the mandatory thing of sneaking peeps in , in the trunk...

If by peeps you mean booze, same here.

[KC Scott]

The drive-in theater is an outdated business model.

No Shit - just the fact you're shut down from Nov.-March in the northern states would have been enough before the whole internet / on demand thingy.

We do our own "drive in" at home. I'll move a Flat screen out on the deck and hook the wireless to it.
Look at the pool - stars - trees / Start a fire in the pit / drink

[Mr T]

peeps

[Katy]

The only drive in theater we had here shut down in 1987.

There might be one 2 hours from me in Charleston, WV.

[poptart]

ElvisMonster still has a forehead.

[Y2K]

Nope..last one closed about 10 yrs ago. It's now a Cosco/Home Depot Mall. We have a couple within an hours drive.

[Katy]

Speaking of ElvisMonster, what the hell happened to him? I haven't seen him on this board in ages.

[Terry in Crapchester]

Two within a 1/2 hour drive of me. One in Perry, NY, and the other in Avon, NY.

--Mgmt.

SWOON

Sin,

Screw_Michigan

[JMak]

Two in the metro Detroit area - one downriver in Dearborn and the other at the Pontiac Silverdome. Dearborn runs 12 screens with two shows for 7 bucks. Pontiac sucks as they sport small screens.

[smackaholic]

Have one about a 20 minute drive in bolton. It does a pretty good bidness and has 3 screens. With home systems like we have now, they really don't make much sense, but, I think a lot of folks go to them just as a nostalgia thingy. I think they also get plenty of bidness from hs/college crowds.

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

Have one about a 20 minute drive in bolton. It does a pretty good bidness and has 3 screens. With home systems like we have now, they really don't make much sense, but, I think a lot of folks go to them just as a nostalgia thingy. I think they also get plenty of bidness from hs/college crowds.

You're thinking of Mansfield drive-in near UConn.... the Manchester drive-in (in Bolton... go figure?) is closed.

[smackaholic]

Yup. It is mansfield. Don't know why I was calling it bolton, other than bolton is fairly close by.

The berlin turnpike used to have about 300 drive ins. They are all home depots or strip malls now.

[Mikey]

There are still some screens in Oceanside but the location is now used as a flea market.

[indyfrisco]

Remember popping up big bags of popcorn---packing some soda and beer/u] in a cooler---putting PJs on the kids and going out for a night a film entertainment ?? Glory times !!

Anyone else find it disturbing that wolfman packed up beer and his kids and went for a drive?

[Diogenes]

There are still some screens in Oceanside but the location is now used as a flea market.

I believe both Santee and South Bay double as flea market/swap meets on weekend days as well.

[Mikey]

Every few weeks they throw up some large inflatable movie screens at the local sports park for a 2009 version of the drive-in:



http://www.myvalleynews.com/story/36958/

[ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2]

Every few weeks they throw up some large inflatable movie screens at the local sports park for a 2009 version of the drive-in.

In Houston, they throw a satin tent over Rumple's wife, hoist her from a crane up about 20 feet... viola, instant movie screen.

[smackaholic]

Every few weeks they throw up some large inflatable movie screens at the local sports park for a 2009 version of the drive-in.

In Houston, they throw a satin tent over Rumple's wife, hoist her from a crane up about 20 feet... viola, instant movie screen.

I gotta call bullshit on this.

No fukkin' way they got a crane that big in houston.

[Q, West Coast Style]

In their heyday, drive-in's probably rivaled wine coolers as the number one facilitator of teenage sex.

[Moby Dick]

had one here taht had been shut down for about10 yrs....the knocked it down and put one of these over it...

[KC Scott]

No fukkin' way they got a crane that big in houston.

And just how do you think Mt. Rumplewife gets moved?

[smackaholic]

I think they lay a bunch of greased up telelphone poles on the ground next to her, lots of big steel cables, locomotives.

[WolverineSteve]

Two in the metro Detroit area - one downriver in Dearborn and the other at the Pontiac Silverdome. Dearborn runs 12 screens with two shows for 7 bucks. Pontiac sucks as they sport small screens.

The good old ford-wyoming drive in. Dearborn is not Downriver FYI.