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Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:16 am**

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 :(

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:30 am**

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 !!

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:33 am**

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...

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:11 pm**

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

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:30 pm**

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

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

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:42 pm**

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...

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:00 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 2:12 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:14 pm**

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

If by peeps you mean booze, same here.

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 3:17 pm**

R-Jack wrote: 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

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 4:56 pm**

TIGRDOG wrote:peeps

Posted: **Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:26 pm**

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

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

Posted: **Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:01 am**

ElvisMonster still has a forehead.

Posted: **Sun Oct 04, 2009 2:40 am**

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

Posted: **Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:10 am**

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

Posted: **Sun Oct 04, 2009 5:13 am**

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

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Posted: **Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:06 pm**

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.

Posted: **Sun Oct 04, 2009 11:28 pm**

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.

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:35 pm**

smackaholic wrote: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.

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:45 pm**

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.

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:46 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 4:56 pm**

Wolfman wrote: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?

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 5:33 pm**

Mikey wrote: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.

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:12 pm**

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/

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 7:28 pm**

Mikey wrote: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.

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:14 pm**

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote:
Mikey wrote: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.

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:00 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 9:18 pm**

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

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:04 pm**

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

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

Posted: **Mon Oct 05, 2009 11:40 pm**

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

Posted: **Wed Oct 07, 2009 4:47 am**

JMak wrote: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.

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