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I did get to ride today. Road through a small town east of here called Ravenna and saw something I havent done in a while. Midway Drive in.When I was younger I used to have a ball at these. Heck my home town actully had Two.
When was the last time anyone here has been to one??? And more important did you watch the movie?

Last time was in Texas about 25 years ago when I took this crazy chick to an adult drive-in. Yep, porn at the drive-in. Hey, it was her idea! I told you she was crazy.

What movie?

Last year, Welfleet Drive In on Cape Cod MA saw ...um...I don't remember ...but it was kid oriented ...not like the old days...when I didn't remember because I never saw much of it from the back seat ....maybe thats why I was there watching with my kid this time!

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Yep, porn at the drive-in

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I can imagine all the local kids pearing over the fence for that one.

There is a Drive in Movie theater a few miles from me. Never been to a drive in, might be something worth doing.

The Big Mo is about 20 miles from me.

http://www.thebigmo.com/

And the have the best prices around ADMISSION $6.00 Adults (12 & over) $2.00 Kids (4 to 11) Under 4 - Free

And that is for 2 movies

BTTT

Used to go all the time. Haven't since Moby was a minnow. They say they originated in SW PA. - actually the one that was supposed to be the first was about 3 or 4 mi. from my house. You guessed it - Its a strip mall now. When I was in high school there was at least 10 in the immediate area and probably closer to twenty. There were so many that they were listed seperately in the movie listings in the entertainment section of the news paper. I know of one in all of SW PA now. There may be more. I'm not much on movies these days - short attention span, maybe. I haven't been in a theater since my kids were small enough to go with a parent without being embarrassed. That was about a century ago.

There is still one in Butler PA, used to be three different drive ins.Now we have one and it has three different screens so that there are three movies showing at the same time. Get bored with one movie, just move your car in front of a different screen.


Chris, how far from Ravenna do you live? We do military training over at the Ravenna Arsenal. I am sure that you had to drive by it if you traveled on route 5. It is all fenced in with Do not trespass Gov't signs all along it.

i think we got two left in bc one around here, vancouver, and another in the interior, vernon or some where . the one down here closed a few years ago, the land was sold for townhomes (massive housing boom up here), but there was such a kick up and fuss about it closing that the guy bought some more land futher out and reopened. great place to go on a sat night 3 movies for $15 . get there early, bbq,a few hidden coolies,a toke (it is bc) a walk round to check out the cool cars (chicks) .arsenal fan you gotsta try it ,way better than the back row of the la scala .

We had one in Vineland, NJ back in the day (60's). Had loads of fun in my father's Caddy. Haven't been to one since.

I live in stow about 15 min from where you train
and if you ride there in the summer at night you will get to eat more bugs then you will ever imagine
Last time I did I had to stop to clean my helmet screan twice. Next time your by there leave me a message maybe there can be a beer in our future!!!

Sounds great and thanks for the warning.

I haven't been to one in years but we still have a couple here NH. In fact Laconia NH has a good one with multiple screens.

I used to love those. You could hear the dialogue in scary movies over the screams of girls and stupid kids, maried folk could stuff the footspace in the back with blankets and stuff so their kids could stretch out and sleep... The '51 Packard was a perfect car for driveins, the doors were so wide and flat you could set a large drink cup on them.

They closed them all down in SOCAL some 15 years ago because the stupid gang arseholes started making trouble in them.

We had one in Helena but it was plowed over in the 90's for a Wal-Mart. Just another reason to hate Wal-Mart, IMHO.

The last time I went to the Drive-In was the very first date I had with my wife Judie of almost 15 years now.

Making plans over the phone, we had decided that she would pick me up in her brand new pride and joy, a '83 Honda Prelude, and I would drive her and I to the Torrance(CA) Drive-In(torn down in the late '80s, and which now sits one of those developments where they build house after house right next to each other, that are so "popular" here in SoCal). We'd see that well-reviewed new movie "Risky Business", starring that new kid Tom Criuse and that new young HOT starlet Rebecca De Mornay(who, as it turned out while I was watching the flick, reminded me of my previous girlfriend)

Well, just before the movie started, and as that cartoon hotdog danced on the screen enticing those of us in attendance to that den of culinary delights, a.k.a. the Snack Bar, I reached up to remove her rear-view mirror that was somewhat blocking my vision of that talking tub of popcorn.

Now I KNEW that reflective visual driving aid was designed to come off somehow, but I didn't realize it took a quarter-turn to faciliate it's removal. So I just pulled it straight off and broke the d*mn thing.

Judie then angrily yelled in my right ear, "What the hell! YOU just broke my mirror! Why'd you do THAT?!

Well...THAT exchange turned out to be the HIGH-POINT of this date!

Later, as she dropped me off at my apartment after this "fun-filled evening", I told myself that I was NEVER goin' ta see THAT B*TCH again.

Cheers,
Dwight
(funny how things turn out in life, HUH?!)

I think drive in's are making a small come back. There's one in my hometown about 60mi from here (biggest screen in Oregon!) and another one just 15mi or so away. Looks like they are open already too. Might have to cruise down there in the convertable with my best girl and have some fun!

SpeedRacer

The last 2 times I went i took the kids, i made it through the 1st movie[ the animated one] and fell asleep for the 2nd one. Actually the last time i went me, my wife, and both my kids fell asleep and the dude had to wake me up, we were the only car left. Haven't been since.

for more than 10yrs i was the guy who was fixing speakers and heaters and changing the marquees at 2 of the drive in theaters and 3 of the walkin movie house's in the town where i lived. havnt been to the drive in since.

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yep!! the job was great beacuse i could work it on my schedule. had to have speakers working before nightfall and had to change the marquee's once a wk. before dawn. i had 2 movie houses downtown i use to change their marquee's once a wk. before dawn. and seen every movie to many times. one of the houses downtown was the skinflick house so that wasnt to bad for a 16-17 yr old kid hahahahahahahaha i also worked as a stagehand at the local auditorium. it was all tied in together so i worked them both off and on for 10 yr. never worked consesion but used to clean that in the daytime when i would be there working on speakers i would go to the consesion eat popcorn and wax the floor with a buffer once or twice a wk. it was a good job, i learned alot and had alot of fun, could always get me and my buddies into the drive-in on sat. night hahahahahaha is that why i had so many friends hahahahahahaha hum

Can't quite remember the last time but I do remember going to the drive-in as a child with my siblings and parents. The movie? Yellow Submarine. Why do I remember that one? I had just wiped out on my schwinn banana seat stingray and being all bandaged up, had to suffer through the indignity of trying to look cool while at the movies with the clan and my bandaged look. Like others, I did watch other movies later in my late teens, but the names of them? Necking and petting seems to come to mind. Drive-ins were sanctioned parking areas...