There’s one within an hour’s drive of my house but I’ve never been there. In fact, I can’t remember the last one I went to.
Two years ago- there’s a great theater near where we stay on Cape Cod. We go every summer (except last year) and drive-in is a ritual!
Wow, so long ago I don’t even remember what the movie was (and I’m usually very good at remembering stuff like that)
The one and only time I’ve been to a drive-in theater was in the Seattle area during the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival.
If you count art installations, I was at the Empire Drive-In a couple of weeks ago.
I have the same problem. It was around the time of The Boston Strangler and/or Fathom with Raquel Welch. 1967-8?
At any discussion about drive-in movie theaters and I have to mention that I’ve been to an X Rated drive in theater! It closed in '95. The Capri Drive-In in Sand Springs, OK. I think back and I’m just amazed that anyone could get away with showing a porno movie at an outdoor theater. I still remember the feature oddly enough… John Holmes flick called (I think) Prisoner of Paradise.
The Dark Knight. When was that, 2008?
It was a double feature of Gremlins and the Terminator, so…a long time ago.
Just last year. Saw Inglourious Basterds at a local drive-in. It started pouring toward the end of the movie, about when David Bowie’s “Cat People” starts playing. I had to turn on the defrost, but the wind blowing, lightning crashing and rain streaking across the windshield somehow just added to the awesomeness of the climax, and it turned out to be one of the coolest movie-going experiences I’ve ever had.
Star Wars, 1977.
I remember the Capri! I went once back around 1981. I don’t remember the movie but I do remember being vaguely disappointed.
Did you ever go to the Dewey Dirties?
There’s one about 40 minutes from here that we went to twice, about five years ago.
We stopped going because we had an infant who refused to sleep, and spend the whole time crying in the back seat. So we rolled up the windows so as not to annoy the other patrons, but then it got hot. And we could not turn on the A/C because we were in a car that had daytime running lights, and there was no way to run the car in idle without having the headlights on. So we were sweating like pigs in a stuffy car with a crying baby in the back seat.
Now that our kids are older, maybe we’ll try again. Or get a babsitter.
ETA: If it’s still there; I’m not sure it is.
The last movie I saw at the drive in was *Bridget Jones’s Diary. *
Back in the 70s I was sharing a house. One Sunday night one of the women was cooking a roast for all of us. Looking at the paper I discovered that the drive in nearby had a great double feature on but we wouldn’t have time to eat our meal and get there. So we packaged up the whole meal in an Esky, packed plates, cutlery, glasses, wine, the whole works and rushed off to the drive in. The four of us sat around in the car eating the Sunday roast while watching the movie.
It was so much fun that we did it pretty regularly for a few years.
Animal House - 1978.
It’s at least thirty five years since I last went to a drive-in movie. I don’t even know whether there are any still operating in Sydney.
“Red Dawn”; 1984; Escondido, California.
never been to a movie at a drive-in or seen a drive-in
Within the last month here, love the drive-in near us. You can bring food, turn the volume to your liking. If the movie sucks, you can talk, or make out.
I got some once… but they probably don’t condone that there.
This summer with the girlfriend. Double feature of Iron Man 2 and something that I saw the first 10 minutes of. 