Drive-In Movie Theaters Making A Comeback

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What was old, is now new again. Don't know how many have survived over the years in the country, but we have one that has never totally shut down.
(Hockley, TX)

While the AMC movie theaters are talking about closing their doors .... the drive-in movie theater nearby is going strong. They were only open on weekends until recently, and now are showing movies during the week again.
Back to the 1950's!

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My parents would take us to the drive-in every twelve months (it took that long for my mother to stop twitching).

A jug of Kool-Aid and a paper bag of home-popped popcorn was brought along (buy stuff at the concession stand? Not MY mother.) We fought over where we were going to sit. Mom would put the little ones in pj's so that they could be carried sleeping from the car to bed, but of course they'd whine to get to go play on the playground in front of the screen so they'd be filthy by the time the movie started. Quite often, someone drank too much Kool-Aid and threw up.

Now, later as a teenager...…. Oh, yes, the "passion pit" was quite THE place to be. To see and be seen, of course.

I was on a date there one time and he went to the concession stand to get us some stuff. As an (ill-conceived) joke, I disconnected the speaker and moved his car to the other side of the drive-in. After he finally found the car, he was furious and took me home right away. Never asked me out again. I can understand.

On Friday nights, we girls would pile in a car and go to the drive-in and flirt with a car-load of guys. That was a good way to get a date for Saturday night.
 
Bonnie said:
What was old, is now new again. Don't know how many have survived over the years in the country, but we have one that has never totally shut down.
(Hockley, TX)

While the AMC movie theaters are talking about closing their doors .... the drive-in movie theater nearby is going strong. They were only open on weekends until recently, and now are showing movies during the week again.
Back to the 1950's!

iu
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we never had those in this country., we only ever saw them ironically..in the movies.... , I might decide to go back to the cinema if I could sit on the comfort of my own car..and not an Expensive Over air conditioned, freezing cold, theatre, with people talking loudly so you can't hear half the film,...
 
I have been several times to a drive-in, but while living abroad. As hollydolly says, we have never had them in Britain. It is so much better to sit in your own car, especially if you have children.
 
As teens,we had a double screen drive-in-they actually went by different names-the Burlingame Drive In and the Peninsula Drive In. Both in the same place though. We had a Starlite drive in as well,down the road a bit. And an El Rancho. Wow,several others but my mind is blank on the names! I`ll think of them though.

Here is the Burlingame and Peninsula sites. They have just become Facebook`s new headquarters. Or a campus thereof. The actual headquarters is up the road a couple of miles,in the town where I grew up.

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There is small one in Tiger, GA. A big one near Atlanta with multiple screens and new movies.
 

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