Let's go back in time to the Drive In Picture Show

[nccountrygirl]

Y'all are lucky to still have them. Columbia used to have about 6 and now there are none. The closest one around here is in Henderson NC and that is still almost a 2 hr. drive. Do they still have the Marques out front telling what is playing?

 

[CoyoteMagic]

We have 3 in the area here. All are family owned and have been around for a long time. Belmont, Shelby and Cherryville, NC. I think there are a couple more up towards the mountains.

Mom took us to see all the Disney movies. Us kids always got to see the first feature and then we went to sleep. The next feature was for the older folks. Didn't go to sleep fast enough one night and got the shock of my life!!! The singing Rinestone Cowboy, Glenn Campbell, was in a movie. (we are talking waaay back early 70's) I sit up from the back of the station wagon just in time to see his bare tush

Haven't ever forgotten that one

 

[nccountrygirl]

Just think of his tush now and I bet it will knock those images out of your mind.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

You all keep forgetting to add all the steamy car windows you could pass on your way to and from the concession stand!...

 

[speckledhen]

I remember seeing parts of the original Longest yard, and The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane with Jodie Foster.

I remember seeing those, too, Lee! We're living parallel lives, I think. There is a drive in here in Blue Ridge that plays first run movies all the time.​

 

[lizardz]

Jacky'sMamma :

We still have one in Sacramento...

We used to take our son to that when he was little - had a big ole station wagon and would put sleeping bags down and he would fall asleep in the back while mom & dad had some time to snuggle!

What we do now, as the drive-in is too far away to drive, is go to a friend's house who has a big screen (like a projector screen, not TV). We set it up across the garage door and they use their laptop to project the movies onto the screen. We all bring our lawn chairs and potluck it. The kids watch or run around and it's just a great time! Did that on Tuesday - watched "Second Hand Lions" - if you haven't seen it, watch it; it's a really sweet and funny movie perfect for the entire family.

Liz​

 

[bayouchica]

All 8 of us kids would be packed up in the old station wagon going to the drive-in. The one I recall was some documentary about Noah's Ark,hosted by Orsen Wells, LOL. I got busted so many times by my mom,looking at some "R" movie behind us.

I'm guessing it was sometime in the 70's. Those were the days

 

[jaruca]

I remember watching Grease at the drive-in, as well as the Coal Miners Daughter.

But was I the only one who got stuffed with her siblings into the trunk of their fathers Thunderbird, covered in blankets and jugs of oil/washer fluid etc, and told to be very quiet so that we could sneak in without paying?

 

[cheeptrick]

I remember seeing Kung Fu Panda and Iron Man...

Oh WAIT...that was just last weekend at the Northfield Drive in Mass!!

http://www.northfielddrivein.com/

Cold fried chicken, happy kids....and a GREAT Father's Day my DH said!

 

[nccountrygirl]

I had forgotten about those steamy windows, I must be going senile, 1 of those cars was mine.