My folks had a huge station wagon. Mom made the back down into a huge bed for we 4 kids. She made popcorn and other goodies at home that we brought with us. So much fun! I miss my parents so much. We may not have had much but we made up for it with love and togetherness.
My family also had the old Rambler station wagon and we would also make up the back as a bed. We packed sandwiches and snacks and bought our sodas at the drive-iin counter. We would get there while it was still light on those Friday and Saturday Summer nights, and play on the swings that were in the grassy areas near the huge screen, until it was dusk and ready to watch the movie(s), as there were almost always double features. Oh, how I miss the 60's, my wonderful parents and those wonderfully innocent times!
@Zeke on Storm peak Hiding in the trunk, we would sneak into the Miracle Mile Drive-In on Glenn, the Prince Drive-In on Prince Road, and the Tucson 4 Drive-In at Grant and I-10 in Tucson Arizona during the Summer of 1972. By Summer of 1973, we would ride our bicycles to the drive-in with small packs and aluminum lawn chairs strapped to our backs. We'd lock our bikes up nearby. Then we would either climb over or under the fence, depending on specifics. We would set up our chairs close enough to a family who had, as was not uncommon at the time due to Summer heat, gotten out of their car to sit on lawn chairs. Somehow, by Summer of 1974, we had aged out of that extremely fun and memorable behavior.
My family went the drive in two or three times a month. Mom would make a bunch of popcorn and put it in two paper grocery bags, one for mom and dad in the front seat and one for the back seat for me and my sister. Sometimes we took dad's pick-up, parked backwards and used lawn chairs or laid down on blankets. Good times, simple times.
I remember my family stopping at an A&W root beer stand and picking up a gallon glass jug of root beer and glass mugs to take to the drive-in. You then returned them on your next visit.
When I was five and six years old, my family would go to the drive-in theater. My mom would dress me in my footed pajamas (I remember having a yellow and a red pair) and we would get there at dusk. There was a playground in sand in the front of the projection screen and I could play until the movie started (by myself back then!), then run back to the car, a 58 Plymouth with fins. I would have sand trapped in the feet until I went home and mom would take my pajamas off and shake them out.
@@foobarmaximus3506 Good times indeed! When the bottoms got worn out or feet outgrew the footsie part, did your mom also cut them off? And you no longer had cozy safe feet. I remember that happening a couple of times!
Takes me back to the playground under the screen and running back to the car when the cartoons came on. Mom made popcorn at home and brought it in a grocery brown bag with butter stains coming through. We usually brought Shasta drinks and sandwiches. Dad would get out and clean the windows and hang the speaker on the window. We would settle in for a double feature. Usually my brother and I were asleep by the middle of the second. Good times.
As a 4/5 year old in 1964 I remember being so excited in the back of our station wagon, only to wake up on the way home, very mad and sulking that I'd fell asleep.lol
I don't have to wish for those days,"thank God!" We still have four drive-ins near me. And every one still play most off these intermission. And to top it off I always drive my 62 Plymouth to add to the full affect. But I still have to bring my own drive- in speaker for the look! For most drive-ins broadcast on the airwaves. The last time I was at the drive-in was believe it or not was to watch the intermissions, the movies were junk! The drive-in was having a marathon of intermissions.
Believe this - The typical outdoor cinema nowadays survives primarily by way of those snack bar concessions. You want to keep the drive-ins going, BUY something! 🍕🥓🍔🍟🍦🍿
Growing up in southern California drive-ins were one of the joys of summer - or just about any time of the year. There was one drive-in my ex and friends would go to quite a bit. We all had trucks or vans - We'd back in the back of the lot, backwards. Then set up beach chairs in the truck beds. We usually brought big paper shopping bags of our own popcorn - and coolers with our own drinks, too. Still - I would always go to the snack shack at intermission and buy a small box of ice cream 'bon bons' --- Small scoops of ice cream dipped in a hard chocolate shell. There was a playground at the base of the big screen with a small wading pool for kids and their parents. Those were good times --- We'd get two movies with a long intermission full of cartoons and coming attractions.
You had to time it right so you didn't tear through it before the movie began or miss the movie. No matter how well you planned, there was always the family that sent the one child who couldn't remember it all or carry it or the guy who wanted to ask questions. We were all happy, though, when they came back carrying everything -- except your candy bar.
i made a few "Custom" intermissions myself for a Video project back in high school and this reminds me of the days my grandpa took me to the double feature at the drive-in back in my elementary school days (he made sure i didn't fall asleep during the movies, he let me have a nap during the intermission and the drive back home)
It’s crazy. I’m a millenial but I feel like I know this era. Maybe partially from my parents maybe from my deep dive into the past or even the fact that when I was a kid, my family went to a few drive-in theaters ourselves & those are just faint memories now. It’s even crazier though that as I grew up, we still used corded phones & eventually early cellphones & now we have smartphones & laptops we take for granted. Pluto was still a planet & thought of as a cold gray world, now it’s classified as a dwarf & we know it’s actually a beautiful & complex world. When I started school, we still used chalkboards & overhead projecters. By the time we graduated, I had a school-issued iPad & used a MacBook in class as well as used SmartBoards. So many changes in such a short time..
this was the Downer's Grove IL drive in theater, one of the best Drive In movie theaters in the Chicago Land area. The Dairy Queen location gave it away. The Dairy Queen there still exists.
I just want to go to a drive in again! I'm 63 and our parents would put us in PJs so if we fell asleep they could just haul us out of the car and dump us in bed! Other kids wore PJs to.
Oh the memories these bring back. We used to have a small drive-in that showed old movies (the original "Jaws" in 1998) and old intermission reels until it closed in 2004.
Hahaha!!! When I was young, I was in the trunk a few times, taken by my aunt and my 2 cousins. My cousins weren't in the trunk. Drive-ins were great fun! I loved them.
Well, Denice, when people talk about the good old days, your post is what they mean. I can just see you kids all snug and cozy in the back of the station wagon.🙂
These are the classic nostalgia - Dozens of little animated clips from different decades all cobbled together, many of them with scratches on the film, clipped audio and very distinct music and animation styles all mashed together to make intermission reels. You might watch an intermission reel and it might have shorts from 3 different decades along with local slides advertising churches or local businesses.
I remember as a kid in the 70’s going to the drive for $1 carload nights. That’s when we got McDonald’s or Jack n the box as well as mom bringing homemade popcorn for second feature. We had a local drive here that only closed about 4 yrs ago, so it was nice to have my kid’s experience this too. They loved going in their pjs with friends and relaxing.
I have a few memory's of going to the drive in theater ; the oldest was my mom & dad taking my brother & me , we would were our pajamas there so we would be ready for bed when we got home . This particular night I had my pink nighty & satin pink robe on .. my brother & I went to the snack stand & got delicious hot dogs & sparkling soda's . I fell asleep on the drive home & my dad picked me up , carried me in the house & tucked me in . I was only about four years old but I remember it like it was yesterday . I'd give anything to go back to my childhood for even one day 🌉.!
I had to laugh at the size of that Buttercup Popcorn cup. You try and sell that in a theater today and the first question is, "Where's the rest of it?" But this is honestly fascinating to me. I was born in the 80s and only ever went to one drive-in movie when I was 5. I'm so glad for the modern internet keeping the memories of these older times alive.
Oh geez, movie tickets that cost a few dollars, food at the theater like burgers, pepperoni pizza, corn dogs, ice cream bars, hot cocoa, fries, hot dogs, and of course hot buttered popcorn, soda and candy. Makes you wonder if they also serve cotton candy, sausages, cracker jacks, peanuts, red ropes licorice, root beer floats, chocolate malt drinks, fried chicken, frozen yogurt, peanut brittle, blt burgers, fish sticks, chicken nuggets, chocolate pudding, pies, chocolate chip cookies, doughnuts, cupcakes, fudge, etc. as well. SERIOUSLY appetizing movie theater food…. 😁😁😁😁👍👍
Oh my gosh ! Talk about a blast from the past, thank you , so fun to watch. Drive In as a kid in our jam jams , playing at the little play area until the movie started , laying in the back of our station wagon with our sleeping bags. Big smile remembering.
Oh, wow. Back in the day. What a heart tug. Thank you. So many family drive in movies! We even had 4th of July shows there. Meeting new kids on the playground out front before the shows was a blast. Good times. That and the camping, boating, fishing...sigh...
@@margaretbriefs7347 Nope, I had strange tastes as a kid (drove my Mom crazy) and I still do as an almost old lady:) I've lived in a lot of states and countries, I always would taste the local foods and learned to cook the ones I liked.
All of these look familiar to me. I was born in 1955. My family went to drive in movies about two times per month in the summer in the 60s. I remember the mosquito repellant coils you burned on the dashboard.
Great memories of going to the San Pedro drive in growing up. Would get together with my friends family packed in their station wagon. Would always look forward to the intermission.
Born in 1966 here and the last 2 movies I saw as a kid in my old hometown of Perth Amboy NJ at the old Drive-In were "King Kong" in 1976 and "Grease" in 1978. Thought it would be forever. Who knew?
I took my 3 daughters to the "drive in" movie to see Grease. It was shortly after that the last drive in closed in my area. It was such fun. You could load the car with pillows and blankets when needed. Couldn't believe they were closing because business was good. Those were the days my friends!
The switch from film reels to digital was way too expensive for some outdoor cinemas and that is why many of them closed down. But there is a growing movement to reopen some drive-in theaters and down south, opening new ones. I think the COVID-19 situation prompted the need to have the drive-ins remain open.
That mention at the end of free admission DividenTickets is quite a contrast to theaters now. Between that and green stamps, life must of felt so much easier.
Back in the 1950s, my family went to a drive-in theater. My brother and I said we were thirsty, so my parents gave us money to to to the snack bar. When we came back with ice cream (sandwiches or cones, I don't remember), my father got so angry he drove us out of the theater.
You broke my nostalgia button, and I'm not quite old enough to remember most of these. Going to the drive-in was the best. They should play these intermission bumpers at the theaters again. Check out the music video for "And We Danced" by The Hooters for another shot of nostalgia about drive-ins.
So many memories. My father would never, ever allow drinks or food in his car so if we want to the drive-in we had to go in my mom’s Buick Riviera. This was terrible as her car had only two doors, so if you wanted to go to the restroom or snack bar, getting out of the back seat was drama. And, seeing the screen from her back seat was definitely difficult. I remember too the metal speaker you used to listen to the movie often had poor sound quality. Still, an exciting double feature. Blankets, spilled popcorn and fountain Coke. It was an adventure!
It's interesting to see that they had to sell people on the idea of corn dogs. It's such a ubiquitous snack now, but I'm sure it must have seemed weird back then.
I thought the same thing. I was never a big fan of the corn dog. My Grandma would take me to the Pike in Long Beach Ca. and always buy me a corn dog like it was such a nifty treat. Now I understand why.
@@uncle_spanky No, the hot dog is dipped in cornbread batter and then fried. While there is some question about the origin many of us believe they were introduced at the Cozy Dog Drive-In in Springfield IL, along Route 66.
I use the FM radio for that indoor theater surround sound cranked up with the windows rolled up. Why would anyone steal one of those tinny Simplex speakers anyway? A fraternity initiation maybe? If you should accidentally pull the speaker loose, just take it with you! 😆 Just kidding!
Us kids would play on the playground until the movie started again. Our parents would tell us to, "slow down and walk through the cars so we would not clothesline ourselves on the speaker wires mounted in the viewers' cars.
Ah, yes, I remember it well...at the Drive-in we went on the kiddie rides in our feety pj's...then, as determined as my brother and I were to watch the whole movie, invariably we'd fall asleep 20 min in...next thing we knew, Dad was carrying us into the house.
"You boys wouldn't happen to know who blew up the men's room crapper with a ¼ stick of dynamite and helped themselves to the contents of the snack bar in the confusion?"
My first drive-in was December 1972, the Poseidon Adventure in north Hollywood or maybe Van Nuys. I was 7. We moved north, had family in Sacramento, and there was a drive-in with 6 screens right next to the freeway. I don't think they would show a rated R movie on any screens that drivers can see from the freeway, they might see a boob and crash.
It's a shame theater snacks are so damn expensive these days. I remember I took my nephew to the movies once for his birthday,I spent close to $50 on just a few snacks alone
They’re near-extortionist prices, seriously! There’s a movie theater where a friend of mine lives, and tickets for a movie are NOT expensive; they’re very cheap. My PROBLEM is how much the snacks & drinks are! No wonder people make sandwiches & stuff them in coats & purses, because the prices for snacks rob you!
I remember when Mr. Burns had to sing the "let's all go to the lobby" song in a Simpson's episode when he made a speech at the theatre. I think it was the episode where he chooses Bart as his heir.
“The management regrets to announce that the next show has been cancelled, as it cuts into our profit margin. Now sit back and enjoy some more of our dee-lightful intermission ads.”
