There are still a couple drive-in’s left in the Kansas City area, IIRC. Drive-in-Movies are too much fun, too bad they have not made a come back.
Best things about the Drive In:
Bringing lawn chairs and sticking the speaker to the back of the chair
Piling a big group of people in the back of the pickup and watching the movies from there
The Swap N Shop on Saturday and Sunday afternoons
The cartoons they showed before and in between movies (That was when I was little)
The swingset, merry-go-round and teeter totter that they had for the kids right up close to the screen. (Remember John Travolta sitting on the swingset singing “Sandy” in Grease?)
Bringing home-popped popcorn slathered with butter along with us. My mom put it in empty bread bags in those days.
I just drove through my hometown this weekend, and noticed that there is now a gas station where our Drive In used to be. It was the Skylark Drive In, and was right across the street from the cemetary!! Scary movies were even scarier at that drive in!