Drive-in movies. Have you ever been to one?

There used to be a couple of them near my house when I was high school. I was too young to drive but my older friends had licenses and we would pack up a couple of six-packs of beer and we would go see first run movies like “Jaws” and “The Exorcist”. Two or three of us would go and we would usually sneak someone in inside the trunk for free. Or we would have someone laying on the floor in the backseat covered with a blanket. We would casually drive up to the entrance booth where they collected the money and pay for two people. Fun times.

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I remember once when I was in High School I hooked up with a couple of hoodlum characters (bad boys) just for some fun and we all snuck in to the last remaining Drive-in here through a hole in the fence and walked right up to a spot in the middle of the place and sat down on the ground and lit up a joint and passed it around right in plain view of everyone else in the place so that I felt like we were the show and no one at all did anything either. We even went up to the booth and bought some snakes. What a blast that was. We left of course before the show ended.

I’ve never been to one. There aren’t any around. Some friends organized one for a short period of time a few years ago but I wasn’t able to go, I think I was working at the time

There was one I went to see a Flintstones flick with the big guy from rosanne… I recall it well… I was in a hellish state and I found out I had a true friend in a guy I’d known for a few yeArs

It was a rare place in about 95

They aren’t around where I live, it’s not ‘a thing’ here. I have watched, in my living room, films that feature drive-in movies though (sigh).

I snuck into the regular movies and saw spaceballs about five times

I remember going to Hathaway’s in upstate NY when my sister and I were younger.

Dad would pick a double or triple feature, we’d load the car up with blankets and pillows and snacks. The first show was always the G-rated kiddie flick, and my sister would be conked out by the time the credits rolled. Second show was usually a horror / sci-fi / action movie, and Dad and I would sit on the hood and share popcorn (and SODA holy shit SODA!! which I never ever got at home). Third flick would be an R-rated film, and Dad would either stick around to watch it while finishing off a six-pack, or we’d drive home and slink reluctantly into bed.

Man, I miss those trips.

Hathaway’s is still around, I think, but it’s only open a month or two during the summer, and it’s easily an hour’s drive from where I live now… but wouldn’t it be nice.

Yes! The first one I saw was Dune.

I saw MAS*H and Young Frankenstein double feature in 1973 at a drive-in with my family. I was only 7 years old and still remember it.

Holy shmokes I’m old! I’ll be the big 5-0 in about 10 days!

I saw “The Sandlot” in a drive-in in New York (can’t quite remember where) when I must have been 10 or so. It was a novel experience, but I’d be okay if I never go to another one.

I went once with my Dad and older brother. It was the one in Orlando. We rented a cherry red Chevy convertible that I picked out. It was a blast, but I don’t remember the movie.

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I’ve been to many movies at drive ins. Like, “Fiddler on the Roof”, “E.T.”, “Jaw’s”, and the first “Batman”. I remember that it was so fun getting food like hamburgers or hotdogs, and pop, and chips and or french fries with ketchup from the stand at the drive in. That was a big part of the appeal. And, of course, there was always all kinds of boxed candy and of course popcorn too! And we always sat on top of the engine hood of the car and leaned back against the windshield to watch the show. Those were the days when cars were made more durably and you could do that back then. And you propped the big speaker they provided you over the edge of the drivers side of the door with the window down. Pure fun! Yes, those were the days!

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Yeah, I miss those days.

Again you have experiences that I never had when I was young. I have never been in drive-in movies. In my little town here we have just one movie theatre, it has managed to stay open since my childhood when I saw ‘E.T.’ there. Long time has passed. When I was in America I often went to one dollar movie theaters, but this is already 16 years ago.