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Drive-In Movies - 4/28/2008 2:12:23 PM   
stellaluna


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Status: offline 		Our drive-in has opened for the season. I haven't been out there in a couple of years because it's always a double feature and I don't like sitting there that long! But still, I spent my whole life going to drive-in movies and I'm glad I have the option.

Do you go to the drive-in in your town?

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/28/2008 2:21:10 PM   
uncabeeil


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Status: offline 		The last drive-in theater in NJ closed more than 20 years ago. I used to love going to the drive-in. Great place to see horror flicks like "Last House on the Left" and "Don't Look in the Basement".

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/28/2008 2:24:07 PM   
Auben


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Status: online 		We have a vacation mecca called the Wisconsin Dells 45 minutes south of us. They have one and we always try to make it during the summer. It's a great place run by the same family for many years. Same workers back every year. They all know us there.

You don't have to stay for the whole thing! We leave after the first film all the time. Its still a great deal.

That reminds me that I should check their website. I don't think they open until Memorial Day though. Everything stays open longer in Texas.

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/28/2008 3:21:59 PM   
doinkdom


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Status: offline 		I remember going to the drive-in as a kid...we had a station wagon.

My brother and I would put on our jammies and get our pillows and blanket. Dad always had one of those skeeter burning circle things to keep the bugs out. It took forever to light and didn't really help, but he did it anywy.

Mom would pack lots of snacks for us and off we'd go. Sometimes, they brought their lawn chairs so they could sit outside while we slept in the car.

The drive-in we went to did double features but always had a cartoon up front. We were usually sound asleep 30 minutes into the first movie.

All the drive-ins around here are closed now. The one we went to as a kid in Florida is still open. The last movie I saw there was a James Bond movie. It was the one that Paul McCartney did the theme song.

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/28/2008 5:02:26 PM   
Memaw.


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Status: offline 		Our Drive-In opened about a month ago for the season.
We have been 3 times so far.
Love it!

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/28/2008 5:06:58 PM   
doinkdom


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ORIGINAL: Memaw.
Our Drive-In opened about a month ago for the season.
We have been 3 times so far.
Love it!


oh, what fun! I'm insanely jealous

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/28/2008 5:24:47 PM   
Memaw.


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Status: offline 		Doink,
We just love going!
Now that the kids are grown it's just Rick and I.

And now that we are alone, where do you think we park?
As close to the bathrooms as we can get.

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 10:44:47 AM   
stellaluna


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Status: offline 		See, our drive-in doesn't let you leave until the whole thing is over. They're mean like that.

I grew up in a town with a drive-in called the Skyvue. It's still open. Wednesday nights were $2 car night. It was even like that when my mom was a kid and when she was in high school they'd cram people in the trunks to get as many people in as possible for $2.

During the winter when the Skyvue is closed, they open the snack bar on Wednesday nights and you can go buy something called a "chihuahua." I don't know if they have these anywhere else. It's a fried corn tortilla spread with chili, pimiento cheese and sprinkled with cabbage, topped by another fried corn tortilla. They are very popular.

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 11:49:48 AM   
Memaw.


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ORIGINAL: stellaluna

See, our drive-in doesn't let you leave until the whole thing is over. They're mean like that.



The ones we have gone to you are free to leave anytime.
Most of the time I talk Rick into leaving after the second movie because the last one is usually the scary one.
He likes horror movies, but I find them hard to watch with my hands over my eyes.

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 12:51:31 PM   
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Status: offline 		Never been to a drive-in movie theater,but there is one like 30 minutes or so away from me. I've been meaning to go there and check it out. Of course it's only open when the weather is nice out.
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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 2:11:25 PM   
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Status: offline 		I think drive-in movies are something everyone should do at least once.

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 2:28:06 PM   
doinkdom


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Status: offline 		I do too.

The closest we have now is a movie in the park where they show a movie outside in a public park. But they can't do it very often cause the bugs around here are seriously carnivorous.

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 3:49:17 PM   
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ORIGINAL: raspberry331

Never been to a drive-in movie theater,but there is one like 30 minutes or so away from me. I've been meaning to go there and check it out. Of course it's only open when the weather is nice out.


You don't know what you're missing.

My dad says there is one in our town that just reopened. I'm going to have to find it.
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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 4:51:10 PM   
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Status: offline 		Growing up in the fifties, we went to the drive-in a LOT. Four a family of four you couldn't beat it, two bucks a car. For that you got a cartoon, two fairly recent movies, and a playground up in the front.

And while the eats were cheap, the between-movie ads for the snack bar selling them were priceless. Animated hot dogs and Popsicles dancing around to a scratchy soundtrack...film footage of questionable greenish pizza...corn dogs that were older than Teddy Roosevelt... Good times.

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 5:34:31 PM   
Memaw.


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And while the eats were cheap, the between-movie ads for the snack bar selling them were priceless. Animated hot dogs and Popsicles dancing around to a scratchy soundtrack...film footage of questionable greenish pizza...corn dogs that were older than Teddy Roosevelt... Good times.


They still have those!
Chilly dilly pickles, dancing soda pops, the whole she bang!

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 6:05:35 PM   
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Status: offline 		I haven't been to a drive-in movie in at least 20 years. I loved to go to the drive-in with my famil when growing up.

I agree everyone should experience a drive-in movie at least once. I know there is one that might be about 45 mins to an hour away from us and I think that taking our family to the drive-in will be on our list of things to do this summer before my daughter goes to college.
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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 6:07:02 PM   
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Status: offline 		We never bought food from the concession stand when we went. We packed up the cooler with sodas and my dad popped enough popcorn to fill a paper grocery bag.
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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/29/2008 6:12:12 PM   
DenimDiva


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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/30/2008 3:18:51 AM   
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ORIGINAL: stellaluna

I haven't been out there in a couple of years because it's always a double feature and I don't like sitting there that long!


Nothing says that you have to stay for both features... you could always just go to the first one and then leave.

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There is a drive-in not too far from me. We go a few times a year when there is something out I want to see. We went last week and saw "Horton Hears a Who!" with "College Road Trip." We were only one of three cars there since it was a Wednesday night.

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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/30/2008 11:14:30 AM   
Rayoh


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Status: offline 		We don't have a drive in near us. I loved going to those growing up. Popcorn in the bag, own sodas. Often times already in pajamas so when we got home we could just go right to bed. Out of all the places to pick usually parking in a spot with a bad speaker. LOL Fun thinking about all the memories.

My gosh the last drive in movie I went to see was over 20 years ago when I went and stayed a few days with my sister and brother in law. For some reason I'm thinking the movie was Ruthless People with Danny Devito but not positive.
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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/30/2008 11:16:54 AM   
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and a playground up in the front.





We weren't ever allowed to go play on the swings etc.. Made me mad sometimes seeing other kids getting to go play and we couldn't. Might've had something to do with being in our pajamas. LOL
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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/30/2008 4:53:54 PM   
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Status: offline 		Do people actually go to the drive in to watch the movies???


In all seriousness, I have been about 5 times in my life. I went once with my family as a kid to see Dances With Wolves and was bored out of my mind. I went with my husband a few times. The first one there were really bad mosquitos, the second one was a downpour for the whole movie and we couldn't even see the screen, and the last one I was very pregnant and was getting up every 15 minutes because it felt like my daughter was jumping on my bladder.

We live in a different state now that barely gets any rain or mosquitos so we might give it another try and hope it goes better than it has in the past. I do like the nostalgia of it though
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RE: Drive-In Movies - 4/30/2008 5:01:32 PM   
Memaw.


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Do people actually go to the drive in to watch the movies???


My husband does.

I was looking forward to cuddling with him like we were teenagers and he wants to watch the movie.

Hhmmpph.



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RE: Drive-In Movies - 5/1/2008 6:09:51 AM   
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Do they play good movies at these drive-ins?
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RE: Drive-In Movies - 5/2/2008 10:09:17 AM   
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Status: offline 		Going to the drive-in tonight to see Spiderwick Chronicles and Iron Man.

While they took down the playground years ago, our drive-in is one of the oldest in the country and still pretty authentic-- down to the tinny speakers to prop on your window. They also broadcast a radio frequency, so we park in the b