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21 March 2012

INTERMISSION TIME. Our feature will resume in ten minutes.
Also fun: an intermission clip that asks viewers to protest the implementation of Daylight Saving Time. (Kind of a big deal when your business can't really get rolling until after dark.)
posted by BoringPostcards 21 March | 13:33
The last drive-in movie I went to was Grease. My mum's last husband took us (mum, bro#4 and myself) on a "date".
posted by deborah 21 March | 14:04
The last one I went to was in 1986, *just* before it turned into a flea market. I saw Sixteen Candles.
posted by JanetLand 21 March | 14:15
We're lucky to still have one functioning drive-in in Atlanta... it's fun to take the convertible out there and catch a flick on a warm night.
posted by BoringPostcards 21 March | 14:47
I thought it was going to be this.
posted by Eideteker 21 March | 15:29
I've never been to a drive-in! Would love to sometime.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 21 March | 15:53
Yeah, we got a Drive-In. Now that I have a functioning car, I should go. Currently showing "John Carter" which sounds like a good drive-in movie. Then Friday, it's "Hunger Games", baby!
posted by oneswellfoop 21 March | 16:12
There's still a drive-in near me in Pittsburgh (open year round!) but I've never actually been there. I should remedy that. Last time I went to a drive-in was in the mid-nineties to see a double of Babe and Apollo 13 at the Wellfleet on Cape Cod while on vacation.

I have a somewhat dim memory of going to a Jan Michael Vincent drive-in double feature of White Line Fever and Shadow of the Hawk as a kid. Great movies to an 11 year old, probably not so great now.
posted by octothorpe 21 March | 16:19
The only movie I remember seeing at a drive in was Gremlins. Mainly because my brother fell asleep and the movie freaked me out (I was 6-ish). Despite living in the same city as one in OH and having one in the county west of me now, I can never find anyone willing to go.
posted by bluesapphires 21 March | 16:21
Remembering my last drive-in experience(s), in 1989, living near a drive-in in the San Fernando Valley (which soon afterward closed and had a School built over it), where the ex and I could have a cheap date and talk back to the screen (MST3K wasn't on the TV locally yet). And a couple of the movies we saw needed it: "Star Trek V: Shatner Overload", also the most embarrassing movie Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor ever did together: "See No Evil, Hear No Evil". Should have contributed that one to the IRREDEEMABLY BAD MOVIE thread. That's probably most of what deterred me from Drive-In-ing here when I had a car before.
posted by oneswellfoop 21 March | 16:56
Also, the very first movie I ever went to was at a drive-in somewhere near Kendall Park, New Jersey. It was 1969 and I saw The Jungle Book.
posted by JanetLand 21 March | 18:23
A NEW Drive-In was just announced for Fort Worth. w00t!
posted by Doohickie 21 March | 19:51
This is the only drive-in left anywhere near us. I used to go to the Southport Drive-in regularly when I was younger (as often as not, gaining entry in the boot of a car) and particularly loved the dawn-to-dusk movie marathons. A shopping centre sits there now and the community is the worse for it.

Some friends and I looked into opening one a few years ago, but the availability of a suitable site at a reasonable price was just too problematic. I would still love to do this one day.

TPS, you have to go! Also, it's about the only place you can go to watch a movie and take a baby with you without pissing off everyone around you. Just sayin' ...
posted by dg 21 March | 21:10
Photo Friday Advance: || This one's for you, Deborah

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