First DRIVE-IN Movie ever watched...

Huh, no shit? I didn't know that either. I'll bet It was a blast with the wind blowing down off the mountain. Can't imagine why it's not there anymore.

 

My mom and dad stuffed my sisters, brother and me in the back of thier '66 Chevy II station wagon and we saw "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly". Great times. Simpler times.

Dad almost cried when my mom made him sell that wagon.

 

hot rods to hell.

 

>>>>>,When i was in the Air Force stationed in Anchorage ,Alaska ,,,the Drive-Ins were closed in the summer since it was 24/7 of daylite from may thru sept ,,but,,,since it was 24/7 of darkness in the winter ,,they started showing movies at Noon ,,and those heaters we hung on the window with the speakers didn't werk very good bekow 20 degrees ,,so we had to let the cars idle for the heater,,,,fouled spark plugs were common ,,,Autolites were the only plugs that would clean themselves out ofter the movies ,,

 

>>>>>,Oh ,...that was in the early '60's ,,,points ignitions ,,before HEI's

 

Ole Yeller in 1957

 

not my first, but one of the most memorable was "night of the living dead"
maybe 1968?

 

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds 1963 Classic
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjj32CavzU0&feature=youtube_gdata

 

" Son of Flubber" 1963 Totowa New Jersey,,,

 

I was a late one ha ha ha , Born in 80 , But i still got to go to the drive in in Pana , first one i ever saw there was Gremlins

 

My parents took my sister and I to From to Eternity with Frank Sinatra, to a drive in in Glenwood CO in 1953, it was a talk if the town as they rolled on the beach and this was unheard of in the 50's.

 

Was just a little kid, but the Bel Air Drive in at 31 st and Cicero in Chicago was my first experience. My mom & her sister loaded up the car with all their siblings & took us to see "Splendor in the Grass". It's a Burt Lancaster Natalie Wood classic if I remember correctly.

 

DANG, I wish there were still drive in's around here..... there was one in SE portland that they closed down probably 15 years ago or so? I heard there might actually be one somewhere outside of portland, I just haven't investigated to much. I'd actually like to open one myself some day here in Portland somewhere.. one thing at a time I guess.. ha.

Oh, I do remember seeing jurasic park at the one that closed down, when I was real young. I went with my best friend and his parents in a 65 mustang.

 

TASK FORCE with Gary Cooper and Jane Wyatt at the Bloomington Drive-in, Bloomington, MN, in 1949. I was eight years old.

 

GIANT; Apache Drive-In, Tucson Az 1956

 

I remember the parents taking us to see that Sgt. Pepper movie with the Bee Gees. Damn im embarresed to admit that. I was only like 5 or 6 though.

 

For me, (Santa Clara, CA) it was '47, I was 5. We went 7 miles away to San Jose, the El Rancho Drive In theater, on Alma St., in Dad's '37 Ford flatback tudor sedan.
We saw "The Red River", starring John Wayne. (Bo Derrick's husband, John, was playin the Duke's son...)
Hey, you young whippersnappers! Don't remember Bo Derrick? LOL

 

It had ta be The Beatles...HELP, i think, my parents took me and my sister All the girls were dancing in between the cars. That was in Paramus, NJ. Today its a HUGE Mall. But they do have cool car shows during the summer in the same spot. Slim

 

If it was B&W then it was "A Hard Days Night","Help" was in color.

Went to lots.Had 4 drive ins within 10 miles.Can't remember first, "None But The Brave",Frankie Sonata war flick sticks out but I know I saw earlier ones in the back of my friends '57 150 2 door wagon.Saw tons of all niters with grade B scary themes,biker themes,hot rod themes.They would run 5-6 movies till about dawn.We had it real good around here with the drive ins. Later on the infamous Aust drive in was porno city.What a blast there.If only the old crew cab could talk.Mammaries.

 

"Born Losers" at the Circle Drive -In on the Scranton-Carbondale highway in 1968

 

my first I remember was "Jeramiah Johnson" with robert redford. That drive in is now a sams club. We still have sac 6 drive in, lots of parties there in high school.

 

the first i remember was Honey i shrunk the kids

 

My parent hated walk-in theaters and I spent many a night at the Midway Drive-In. I don't remebember the movie's I saw, but I do remember my brother and I playing in the rocket at the playground. As far as I know all that stuff, screen and all is still there. As any really old guys from NorCal will attest, there were a bunch of drive-ins around in the late '60's and into the late '70's. Anyway, where Hansen's Truck Stop now is was once a drive-in and I remember seeing "Munster Go Home" as part of a double feature with "Patton" with George C Scott. Odd combo I know and being very young, I fell asleep after Patton's monologue, "... I shoveled shit like a Marine!!!..."

 

Is that the one with three screens?

 

The Starlite in Marshall, Mn for a "dusk to dawn" showing of 4 James Bond movies in about 1969. They all seemed to run together and to this day I cant keep one Bond movie seperate from another. Also spent a number of summer nights at Duffy's in Slayton Mn. It was a mecca of underage drinking and other "activities". They used to use a front end loader the next morning to scoop up all the empty beer bottles.

 

>>>>>,The Route 66 Drive In is still open in Carthage ,Missouri ,,just a few miles from MOKAN Dragstrip ,,and will have a double feature Fri nite before the HAMB drags ,,open hedders allowed too ,,BE THERE ,,

 

Mid 1950's The Islander in Key West my Sister and I would play on the swings and teeter totter untill the movie started. Thunder Road, Old Yeller, Songs of the South in fact most of the Disney movies, Beneath the 12 Mile Reef and Operation Pettycoat come to mind and some or all of the last two were made in Key West.

 

My first time was at the State Line drive-in in Elizabethton TN at a benefit car show. We watched American Grafiti! Amazing. I watched American Grafiti in a five-window coupe. Don't get much better than that!

 

IAMMMMW Still a hilarious movie, at the drive in a 1965 Galaxie Station Wagon..my brother and i in the back with Sleeping Bags....
Secretly watching the couple next to us...Necking!!

 

The 1st Drive In that we went to was Herbie the Love Bug at the Moonlite Drive-In in Santa Clara. My Father( may he rest in peace) took me and my sister in his (now mine) 1962/63 Apollo 3500 Gran Turismo,the Eighth car built. At that time the car was Black. Needless to say we were the center of attention at the intermission with swarms of people surrounding the car. It was pretty cool, I tell ya my dad really enjoyed the attantion. I remember sitting in the luggage area watching that movie. I rode in the luggage area for many many years using the luggage straps as a seat belt. I still watch that movie when it is shown rarely on TV.

" I think it was trying to get at us sir" " Of course it was Havershaw! There's no use trying to blink the fact, its either us or it this time!"

the pics are Herbie, My Red 3500GT and some pics of Milt Browns Car the last 5000GT Coupe built that sold last year for 76K+ 10%