IKE
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Remember these ?
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MickaC
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- Manitoba, Canada
Yes I do remember these……those were the days.
Past thoughts of many drive-in movies with those.
Past thoughts of many drive-in movies with those.
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Kika
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- Northeast PA
Yep, I do. Lots of memories.
Sassycakes
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- Pennsylvania
I remember them like it was only yesterday.
Yes, I do to watch a movie and also having fun. The smell of popcorn and soda pop. The playground what was in front of the movie screen that children would play in. Sometimes watching the children play was more entertain that watching the movie. The guy who waited until the scary scenes of the movies then run down a row of cars knocking on the trunks of the cars as he passed by. The sign that said trucks can only park in the back row. The scream of the girl whose boyfriend had become too friendly with her. The boy pleading with the girl that he will be good. That was good entertainment all in itself. Guys going from their cars to buy more snacks and watching to see what the guys bought. Children walking through the parking lot visiting each other in their friend’s car. Good memories for me.
jimintoronto
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A bit of a story about drive in movies here in the Toronto area. The North West Drive in ( in the 1960's ) was out in farm country about 20 miles from the suburban edge of the growing city. The drive in was on a rural road, a mile from the highway. At the very back of the lot was the "tractors and dump trucks row ". Yep those farm kids would show up driving a tractor, or a big truck. They had to park in the back row so they didn't obstruct someone else's view. Some times a bunch of kids who were not old enough to legally drive would show up on horses, tie up to a speaker post, and sit on lawn chairs. They rode across some fields to get there the back way. In later years the city grew out towards the drive in, and the expanded Toronto airport resulted in the landing aircraft flying right over the top of the screen, depending on which runway they were using that night. The only drive in movie in the Toronto area now is The Mustang out near Oakville. JimB.
Paco Dennis
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- Mid-Missouri
Yep....loved to go to the drive-in movies!
As far as I know, we still have a couple drive-in movie theaters open in the Houston area
... there used to be over a dozen.
Showboat Drive-in is just to the North of where I live, and I've been there a few times.
https://www.chron.com/culture/parent/article/drive-in-movie-theater-houston-17407320.php
... there used to be over a dozen.
Showboat Drive-in is just to the North of where I live, and I've been there a few times.
https://www.chron.com/culture/parent/article/drive-in-movie-theater-houston-17407320.php
Bella
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I have fond memories of going to the drive-in when I was a child. There was a drive-in less than ten minutes from my house. In my teens, friends would pile into the car and we'd go during the week for $6.00 a carload! 
"The drive-in theater is a New Jersey invention, created and launched in Camden in 1933. Entrepreneur Richard M. Hollingshead Jr. sought a new venture that would succeed financially despite the country’s Depression. He speculated that, even when in financial straits, families still drove their cars and still went to the movies. Hollingshead combined the two activities, hatching a concept that would change America’s landscape.
Over the next decade, hundreds of drive-ins sprung up across the United States. By the 1950s, there were more than 4,600 outdoor theaters in the nation. The average theater held about 1,000 cars; one of the largest – the Newark Drive-In – boasted accommodations for up to 2,400 vehicles. Many outdoor theaters mirrored the simplicity of Hollingshead’s original design – a large white screen with enormous speakers scattered around the fan-shaped lot – while others improved upon the concept by adding speakers that hung from the car windows, in-car heating units, concession stands, kiddie rides, motor vehicle inspection stations, lotteries, AM radio broadcasting and more, making the drive-in experience an all-out warm weather event.
Since each theater was independently run – that is, not under the control of the Hollywood studio system – drive-ins were considered pesky, second-rate establishments by the large studios. To discourage patron-stealing ticket sales, the studios limited which releases would be licensed to drive-ins, and usually offered only second-run features, B-grade movies and low-budget westerns. Even with those restrictions, drive-ins flourished, with families arriving, literally, by the carload. The packed parking lots proved the drive-in was not so much about which film was playing – it was about having a family night out that was fun, social and informal.
At the height of the drive-in’s reign, this outdoor-movie experience could be found at five locations in Bergen. By the early 1980s, Bergen’s drive-ins had suffered a decade-long decline in popularity – a fate made worse by rising property taxes and the advent of cable television and home video. By 1984, the flicker was gone, and Bergen’s drive-ins were all just a memory." > https://www.northjersey.com/story/e...ergens-long-gone-drive-in-theaters/348467001/
Drive-Ins throughout the United States > https://www.driveinmovie.com/united-states
Bella
"The drive-in theater is a New Jersey invention, created and launched in Camden in 1933. Entrepreneur Richard M. Hollingshead Jr. sought a new venture that would succeed financially despite the country’s Depression. He speculated that, even when in financial straits, families still drove their cars and still went to the movies. Hollingshead combined the two activities, hatching a concept that would change America’s landscape.
Over the next decade, hundreds of drive-ins sprung up across the United States. By the 1950s, there were more than 4,600 outdoor theaters in the nation. The average theater held about 1,000 cars; one of the largest – the Newark Drive-In – boasted accommodations for up to 2,400 vehicles. Many outdoor theaters mirrored the simplicity of Hollingshead’s original design – a large white screen with enormous speakers scattered around the fan-shaped lot – while others improved upon the concept by adding speakers that hung from the car windows, in-car heating units, concession stands, kiddie rides, motor vehicle inspection stations, lotteries, AM radio broadcasting and more, making the drive-in experience an all-out warm weather event.
Since each theater was independently run – that is, not under the control of the Hollywood studio system – drive-ins were considered pesky, second-rate establishments by the large studios. To discourage patron-stealing ticket sales, the studios limited which releases would be licensed to drive-ins, and usually offered only second-run features, B-grade movies and low-budget westerns. Even with those restrictions, drive-ins flourished, with families arriving, literally, by the carload. The packed parking lots proved the drive-in was not so much about which film was playing – it was about having a family night out that was fun, social and informal.
At the height of the drive-in’s reign, this outdoor-movie experience could be found at five locations in Bergen. By the early 1980s, Bergen’s drive-ins had suffered a decade-long decline in popularity – a fate made worse by rising property taxes and the advent of cable television and home video. By 1984, the flicker was gone, and Bergen’s drive-ins were all just a memory." > https://www.northjersey.com/story/e...ergens-long-gone-drive-in-theaters/348467001/
Drive-Ins throughout the United States > https://www.driveinmovie.com/united-states
Bella
Tish
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Gosh yes, I remember them, good times of hiding friends in the boot of the car so we only paid for two people 
fuzzybuddy
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Those speakers were crummy. They sounded tinny. And the wiring was shot, and would cut out. I remember the count down to get to the concession stand. And no matter what you brought from home, stuff from the concession stand was better.
Old_Dame
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- California
Hello, Ike
This photo you’ve shared of deserted, rusty, antiquated drive-in steel microphones standing detached yet resolute like well-trained soldiers at attention, shrouded in overgrown weeds and unkempt grass; is sorrowful as well as a haunting sight.
Sorrowful because it’s a sad reminder of an era that’s vanished under the weight of time.
Haunting because it’s reminiscent of summer happiness, and heart warmed moments shared with loved ones, that like ghosts; have come and gone.
This photo you’ve shared of deserted, rusty, antiquated drive-in steel microphones standing detached yet resolute like well-trained soldiers at attention, shrouded in overgrown weeds and unkempt grass; is sorrowful as well as a haunting sight.
Sorrowful because it’s a sad reminder of an era that’s vanished under the weight of time.
Haunting because it’s reminiscent of summer happiness, and heart warmed moments shared with loved ones, that like ghosts; have come and gone.