Hey, it's raining out here!

I only go for the Boobies.

Starlight in Atlanta FTW! Grillin meat, drinkin beer and watchin movies. Good times.

Teenagers have to get BJ's somewhere.

Malinki: Hey, it's raining out here!

So?

Their used to be a drive in on the Cabot trail called BJ's. East coasters know if its still there?

robisfunky: Starlight in Atlanta FTW! Grillin meat, drinkin beer and watchin movies. Good times.

I just looked that one up before reading your post. I'm interested. I gotta get a group of friends to go down there some time.

There are 2 drive ins near me. Nothing beats 2 movies for 4 or 5 people 10 bucks total. You can talk, you can smoke, it's great.

Starlight Rawks Smoking Cigs and other while watching movies

The drive-in experience is so much better than the typical theatre experience. Plus the price is right. The wife and I used to go to a drive-in in San Jose every tuesday night. It was $4 per adult for two current movies. We only stopped going about 3 years ago because we moved 70 miles away.

On Guam,we called them "wash-outs". No cars,just rows of benches outside. Good times.

Much rather have drive-ins... too bad they don't exist anywhere too close to me.

It's outrageous to pay all this money for a shiatty seat in a movie theatre, when a drive-in is more comfortable, cheaper, and allows you to drink/smoke/bone.

The Bengies in Baltimore rocks... Largest movie screen in the US and $8 triple-features. Saw "Iron Man" there when it first came out.

The only time I ever went to a drive in theater was in high school. I went with my girlfriend and my buddy and his girl. We took his mom's monstrously big old car of some sort and put a blanket on the windshield and hood. Then we all sat on the hood using the windshield as a backrest. 4 of us lined up across the hood. Did I mention it was a BIG car? We saw Breakfast Club. Ahhh.. Good times.

Back in high school, we used to take in many cases of beer in with us. The back two rows were a non stop party.

Chief Drive-In in Chickasha, OK. Two first-run movies, sometimes triple features. Costs less than 30 dollars for my family of five. We've taken a picnic with us and didn't have to buy concessions more than once. Boom box for sound, lawn chairs, a can of OFF and you get several hours of entertainment. Only drawback is it's a forty minute drive on a toll road, but still worth it to me.

/Dad ran a drive-in in the 70's; still has lots of fond memories. Kind of sweet to carry a sleeping kid in from the car at 4 AM.

I used to go to the one in Memphis, haven't found one here in San Antonio yet. But five bucks for two movies, and you can take coolers and all the food you want. We sit out of the car in chairs and play the sound through the car stereo. Great times.

I took my girlfriend and her two girls to a drive-in in Commerce,Ga because
they'd never been to one. I'm pretty sure it's closed now.

Of course they asked.."what are we going to see?"
I said, "I don't know, some kiddy movie called Shrek"

/they loved it
//the shiatty pizza was great

In the 70's my mom had a Ford Custom 500 and we crammed 11 kids into the trunk to go to the drive in.

Later when that drive-in went to $2 a car we'd pile as many people as we could plus lawn chairs and coolers in my boyfriend's PU. American Graffiti played every Friday night one summer. Good times.

I strongly recommend drive-ins to families with small children. If Junior gets cranky or loud, you can roll up the windows and keep them from disturbing others, and if Junior gets sleepy, they can stretch out on the back seat. Everyone wins!

Surprising many, drive-in theaters still popular 75 years after their inception, despite the rise of modern multiplexes.

Yet there continues to be less and less of them anywhere that I live.

Best drive-in resource on the web

Find one in your area!

"Hey you guys! You all right in there?
They givin us the silent treatment!"

/obscure?
//or just old

There is a drive in near here. I take my family just about every weekend. There is a playground for the kids to play on before the movie starts. It costs around 12.50 for my family (four). We stay for both movies. They always show top 10 movies as well. This weekend it was The Dark Knight and Hancock.

robisfunky: Malinki: Hey, it's raining out here!

So?

Pedro and the Man at the Drive In (new window)

And the drive in was the only place you would see kids playing on the playground, below the screen, in their pajamas.

Impudent Domain: "Hey you guys! You all right in there?
They givin us the silent treatment!"

/obscure?
//or just old

Must be that obscure, I tried in the Boobies.

There's two left in Connecticut - at each northern end of the state. I usually go to the one in Plesant Valley (NW corner) once a year. It is a lot of fun... we bring booze, food, etc.

The one near my house closed a few years ago which sucks.

Malinki: Impudent Domain: "Hey you guys! You all right in there?
They givin us the silent treatment!"

/obscure?
//or just old

Must be that obscure, I tried in the Boobies.

Bwahahahaha, pwnd myself :)

Like I was trying to say, my initial comment was apparently more obscure.

Drive-ins were great in the 60's. Where else could you get laid for a buck and a quarter? I remembr a motel in Brattleboro, VT, that over-looked the drive-in. You could be in bed watching the movie. Those were the good old days.

Second Oldest Drive-in, is in Saco, Maine. They are showing Dark Night, and Journey to the Center of the Earth; you can't beat it with a stick.

Tim

Malinki: Hey, it's raining out here!

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Oh man. The key broke off in the lock!

Litchfield, Illinois: SkyView Drive-In on old Route 66. Movies show up about three to four weeks after their release. Cost of admission: $2 for a double feature. And the refreshments are cheaper, too.

Epic win.

Numba 72: Malinki: Hey, it's raining out here!

That's exactly what I was thinking.

Oh man. The key broke off in the lock!

That's EXACTLY the spot I'm at in the audio right now :)

I missed the Van Nuys Drive-In (new window). I remembered the family packing the cooler and the kids into an El Camino truck and then head out there.

Where else you can watch the movies for 5 bux?

Like most of the guys in my high school, my first sexual experience was at the local drive in. Also like the rest of the guys in school it was in the back seat with Angie Jones.

\not all at the same time
\\although she likely would not have objected to that.

We still have the Admiral Twin in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Two massive screens even by drive in standards. It also has a small scene in the movie the Outsiders.

Cubic Zirconium Jim Brady: Chief Drive-In in Chickasha, OK. Two first-run movies, sometimes triple features. Costs less than 30 dollars for my family of five. We've taken a picnic with us and didn't have to buy concessions more than once. Boom box for sound, lawn chairs, a can of OFF and you get several hours of entertainment. Only drawback is it's a forty minute drive on a toll road, but still worth it to me.

/Dad ran a drive-in in the 70's; still has lots of fond memories. Kind of sweet to carry a sleeping kid in from the car at 4 AM.

hey zirconium, thought for a second there I had a fellow farker living in chickasha, but hey lawton has so much more stuff than here. and i came in here to post the link that telefunkenu47 posted. great site. I only knew of three in Oklahoma, the Chief, Winchester, and Cinema 69 in McAlester. That last one was a good one (other than the name, lawl) because up until a few years back it was $5 per CARLOAD. You get a big land yacht and you could sneak 10 people inside for 5 dollars. Of course you there were a couple of us who went to one of the houses down the street and climbed up on their roof and brought a portable radio, just as good as being in the last row in your car.

jaylectricity: Surprising many, drive-in theaters still popular 75 years after their inception, despite the rise of modern multiplexes.

Yet there continues to be less and less of them anywhere that I live.

So the ones near the several places you evidently live are staying open, just getting smaller?

There is a drive-in in my town. Its $2 for a double feature of movies that are about 2 to 3 weeks old, but its still a pretty awesome deal.

I'll probably go see Dark Knight there for the third time when it moves over from the regular theater.

robisfunky: Starlight in Atlanta FTW! Grillin meat, drinkin beer and watchin movies. Good times.

Yup. Getting ready for the Drive-invasion coming up. Friend of mine introduced me to Salvia during Tommy last year, just as Elton John was coming onscreen. Whoa. Big Fun.

peterstork670: Litchfield, Illinois: SkyView Drive-In on old Route 66. Movies show up about three to four weeks after their release. Cost of admission: $2 for a double feature. And the refreshments are cheaper, too.

Epic win.

This would be the one where I live. well played sir.

Right you are Rubberband Girl! We wanted to see Dark Knight badly, but with a 2 year old in tow, a multiplex was out of the question. So we went to the "Holiday Auto Theater" in Hamilton, Ohio instead. Little one was out for the night 20mins into the show. The theater even had a dude dressed as Batman skydive in before the show (new window)!

Malinki: Malinki: Impudent Domain: "Hey you guys! You all right in there?
They givin us the silent treatment!"

/obscure?
//or just old

Must be that obscure, I tried in the Boobies.

Bwahahahaha, pwnd myself :)

Like I was trying to say, my initial comment was apparently more obscure.

lets see if some other ancient farker can get it.

Bergyd: There is a drive-in in my town. Its $2 for a double feature of movies that are about 2 to 3 weeks old, but its still a pretty awesome deal.

I'll probably go see Dark Knight there for the third time when it moves over from the regular theater.

Dude. Whoa.

Closest drive-in to me is 2 hours away in Berlinsville, PA, Becky's Drive-In. Two screens, each a double feature. Right now it's Dark Knight/Journey to the Center of the Earth & Mama Mia/Hancock.

/Bad choices. Journey is a kid's movie & Dark Knight too violent for most kids
//I'm a chick and even *I'm* not about to sit through Mamma Mia for an action/comedy with Will Smith.

Bergyd: peterstork670: Litchfield, Illinois: SkyView Drive-In on old Route 66. Movies show up about three to four weeks after their release. Cost of admission: $2 for a double feature. And the refreshments are cheaper, too.

Epic win.

This would be the one where I live. well played sir.

Me as well, thus my "Dude. Whoa." (which you had not seen.)

Scary, really.

Garrett Indiana still going strong. They were packed when I drove by Friday night.

Double Feature: Batman/Journey to the Center of the Earth. Bastards. I want one near my new home in Peoria, closest one is a 45 minute drive I hear.

I think drive in's will come back. I went last weekend and it was packed..