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02-18-2015, 03:35 AM

#11

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Join Date: 06-30-2010

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Originally Posted by Oldblue

we only have one left in my area, 4 screens and fm to your car radio. I do miss those days with the speaker hanging on the window, the smell of hot buttered pop corn, and steamed up windows at intermission!

How about the inevitable goofball who tried to drive off with the speaker still hanging in their window?

The sad thing is that back in the heyday of the Drive-In movies, the speaker would get ripped off by the car, nowadays...the speaker would either break the door window, or rip the door off.

They just don't build 'em like they used to.

Of course the theaters are nearly all gone, back in 1975 there were 220 Drive-In theaters here in North Carolina. Today we have 9 left, the oldest is the Badin Road Drive-In located in Stanley County, except for a period between 1994 and 2003...it has been open since 1948.

02-19-2015, 05:29 PM

#12

salvy

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i,ll never have the honor of hiding in the trunk sneaking into the drive in again

02-20-2015, 01:47 PM

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CA Blue HHR

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Originally Posted by Oldblue

we only have one left in my area, 4 screens and fm to your car radio. I do miss those days with the speaker hanging on the window, the smell of hot buttered pop corn, and steamed up windows at intermission!

If the movie was a dud my ex and I didn't wait until intermission!

02-20-2015, 02:46 PM

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Oldblue

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Location: Welland,Ont Canada

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my wife and I, first went out to a four movie marathon "all Nighter" feature was Texas Chainsaw Massacre with EarthQuake and American Graffiti and Black Christmas. at the Welland Drive-in in Dain City, Ontario.