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Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« on: November 21, 2014, 11:10:45 PM »
this is one of the changes in the modern era is the loss of drive-in movies

I saw many of them when I was a kid & into my early 20s, but most of these have gone out of business because they just couldn't compete with the multiplex theatres of today

a few drive-ins still exist.. not many

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2014, 11:37:52 PM »
We still have at least 3 in Western Australia. I went often as a kid. Love them. Haven't been for about 5 years though. .
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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2014, 11:50:38 PM »
Still a couple around these parts
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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2014, 12:04:53 AM »
Still a couple around these parts

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2014, 12:06:10 AM »
First movie memory as a child is at a drive in (Bambi), best memory at a movie from high school was at a drive in (title not remembered).

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2014, 01:00:15 AM »
Many...

Exorcist, The Teacher,  and One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest being the most memorable .

Daddy loved taking the lil ones to the most appropriate films.  ;D

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2014, 01:21:01 AM »
yeah I saw Exorcist in a drive in with a bunch of friends and a honey. another secondary memory to the story is the girls in the group are all my friends on Facebook today, including the honey!

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #7 on: November 22, 2014, 01:22:06 AM »
yeah I saw Exorcist in a drive in with a bunch of friends and a honey. another secondary memory to the story is the girls in the group are all my friends on Facebook today, including the honey!

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2014, 05:22:31 AM »
yeah I saw Exorcist in a drive in with a bunch of friends and a honey. another secondary memory to the story is the girls in the group are all my friends on Facebook today, including the honey!

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2014, 06:35:04 AM »
I saw clockwork orange. Except I was still inside my mothers womb. But still.
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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2014, 08:41:20 AM »
I saw clockwork orange. Except I was still inside my mothers womb. But still.
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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2014, 09:14:45 AM »
I had a similar experience with Pure Hell of St Trinians, but it was in a cinema... eyeroll
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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2014, 03:52:22 PM »
Not sure I saw a lot of good movies at the drive in when I was in my 20s.  Mostly Hammer Horror stuff on triple features.

I always thought it was home video that killed the drive in, more than the multiplexes.
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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2014, 05:02:32 PM »
I always thought it was home video that killed the drive in, more than the multiplexes.

probably a mutual contributor

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2014, 06:54:34 AM »
First film I remember seeing was SASQUATCH , I was four.



Saw the Indiana Jones films.
First one at the time blew me away with the head melting shit.

Hmm, LOOSE SCREWS and PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS were favourites as a kid.

Oh I saw Grease, I was in LOVE with Olivia Newton John until the end when she changed her image, NOO!!!!!

Saw one or maybe 2 Star Trek films.

God I cant remember, half the fun was my parents would sneak us in under blankets in the back of the car.

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #16 on: November 23, 2014, 08:09:28 AM »
Not something we had in the UK for obvious reasons, I did attend one at Newcastle racecourse. It was a one off showing as part of an event. We had to have the car running as the window kept misting up........Because of the poor weather...
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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #17 on: November 23, 2014, 11:27:42 AM »
First movie I ever remember seeing was in a drive in and it was Jaws. A word of warning to any new parents.... DON'T LET THE BABYSITTER TAKE YOUR FOUR YEAR OLD TO SEE A MOVIE LIKE JAWS!!!!! AFTER THAT THEY WILL BE SCARED EVEN OF THE BATHTUB, IT WILL BE WORSE THAN TRYING TO GET A CAT INTO A BATH!!!!!
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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #18 on: November 23, 2014, 01:36:36 PM »
First movie I ever remember seeing was in a drive in and it was Jaws. A word of warning to any new parents.... DON'T LET THE BABYSITTER TAKE YOUR FOUR YEAR OLD TO SEE A MOVIE LIKE JAWS!!!!! AFTER THAT THEY WILL BE SCARED EVEN OF THE BATHTUB, IT WILL BE WORSE THAN TRYING TO GET A CAT INTO A BATH!!!!!

It all makes sense now...

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #19 on: November 24, 2014, 08:59:52 AM »
First movie I ever remember seeing was in a drive in and it was Jaws. A word of warning to any new parents.... DON'T LET THE BABYSITTER TAKE YOUR FOUR YEAR OLD TO SEE A MOVIE LIKE JAWS!!!!! AFTER THAT THEY WILL BE SCARED EVEN OF THE BATHTUB, IT WILL BE WORSE THAN TRYING TO GET A CAT INTO A BATH!!!!!

Well, it could have been the bathtub scene from Nightmare on Elm Street.  I definitely took showers for a bit after that one.
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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #20 on: November 24, 2014, 09:01:01 AM »
probably a mutual contributor

Tough to get stoned with a bunch of friends at the multiplex :)
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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #21 on: November 24, 2014, 09:44:07 PM »
Pretty sure drive in's would be too cold in Scandinavia , esp during winter  faint2.gif ;D

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #22 on: November 24, 2014, 10:39:47 PM »
But hot and spicy noodles and a blanket would help.

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Re: Did You See Movies in DRIVE-IN Theatres???
« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2015, 06:32:37 PM »
I,also,remember going to drive in. The first movie I ever remember seeing (as fragmented as the memory is) was a re-release of "Goldfinger" (it took me years to learn what the movie was! Ha! Imagine my surprise as a teen to just stumble upon it while catching up on Bond flicks in the vhs era) at the long-gone (but it was very cool) Winchester Drive in (with 6 or 8 screens) in San Jose, California. When we moved to Fresno, there was the Sunnyside (with 2 screens--the main screen, at one time, was billed as the World's Largest Screen and some movie premiere had been held there when the theater first opened in the 50s or whenever),the Starlite (2 screen), Moon-Glo, Sunset, Motor-In (on the outskirts of town--showed a lot of T&A titles. Oh my STARS!!! Ha!). The last built (and the last to close) was the Woodward Park, a 4 screen theater. I saw "The Sixth Sense" there and I think the theater closed the next year.

Last year I was visiting Whidbey Island in Washington and there was the Blue Fox (???) drive in there. That was a hoot. The snack bar was beautiful--and they had great pizza. Ha! They also had a racetrack on the side. The time I was there they had a garage sale. No posters, but I did buy myself an old theater speaker (they had switched from the old-fashioned speakers to having the sound come through car radios several years earlier---and were just cleaning out their old storage shed). The speaker I got though had the name of a different drive-in (also in Washington) printed on it, as if that drive in had closed and the Blue Fox bought its speakers before going with the radio version? I don't know, but it was fun!

Attached are some crappy phone pictures of the place (Whidbey Island's Blue Fox Drive In). The snack bar was much nicer than it looks here. It was a fun night.


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« Reply #24 on: January 28, 2015, 07:25:32 PM »
Oh wow that is a huge screen!. The snack bar looks nice. That must be the largest popcorn bucket I have ever seen !! ;D