Best cheesy movies. (She Devils on wheels come to mind). 
My God, jujube, you were in the back seat with me. Yeah, the crummy swing set brought back memories. Only one side of the swing's chains was hooked up, so the seat hung down, pointed at the ground. They had a "kiddie pool," about 4 feet wide. It hadn't had water in it since Lincoln was President. I had forgotten about the jug of Kool-Aid. That brought back memories. Kool-Aid uses a lot of expensive sugar, and my mom was cheap, so our stuff was sour as hell. Of course, we never went to the overpriced concession stand. Plus the sound from the speakers was lousy. It was better to roll down the windows, and listen to the sound from the hundreds of other speakers. There was always this one great spot, right in front of the screen, and close enough to the restroom, but when you pulled in, the speaker was missing. I hated the "Intermission" clock on the screen, supposedly, it was ten minutes, but it seemed to be a couple of hours. The only spot you could really see the screen from the back seat was sitting between the front seats, and of course, the rear view mirror blocked out part of the screen. As a kid, I wasn't interested in most of the movie, it was all "mushy stuff".
All the drive-ins here charged $3 per carload. A rumor had started flying around that it was because 2 teenagers left 3 friends in their trunk through the whole movie as a practical joke, and one of them suffocated. But I think it was just a rumor. I think they charged $3 per carload so that kids would stop sneaking people in.
Yeah, you're right there was a "carload" fee. But if I remember it right, it was more expensive, than "2 adults, one child' ticket. I think each kid was 30 cents.
The city offered to help one of our old drive-ins to open up after the indoor cinemas closed, but the drive-in owner's kids (who inherited it) asked the city to just take the drive-in off their hands. The city didn't want to do that. They knew it would take 3 to 5 years for them to put to a vote, get it funded, hire a company to fix the old place up and make it safe and all that, so it never happened.
While in high school, I worked on a farm over the summer and got this idea that I would ask the farmer if I could borrow one of the many tractors on the farm and hitch up a hay wagon and take it out for the night. He wanted to know what for, so I told him that I was going to ask a bunch of kids from the high school if they wanted to go to the drive-in this Tuesday, which was a buck a carload night, for free because I would let them ride the hay wagon in with me driving the tractor. He laughed for about 2-3 minutes. Finally, he told me that if that worked he would buy the popcorn. I asked him, "The soda too?" He agreed.
That's a shame. Drive-ins were great fun.
There's one left in Sacramento, way up at the northeast end so it serves 3 other communities as well. It has 5 screens and is closed for a couple months in winter. I don't know how much they charge, but I bet it's nowhere near as expensive as the indoor theaters.
