Last Time You Went to a Drive In Theatre?

[whoisit]

Its been a couple years since the closest one to us is about 50 miles.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

About 1987 with my parents.

 

[1srelluc]

It's been a minute sure enough.....There is still one operating seasonally in my AO.

The Family Drive-In theatre opened on June 14, 1956. It's in Stephens City, Virginia.

We had the Mustang and the Pitts (later named the Front Royal Drive-In) back in the day but both were gone by the mid-80s.

 

[Flopper]

Drive-in movies reach there peak in the late 50's with 4,000 in operation. The first drive-in opened in early 30's. They were located mostly in rural areas and medium size cities and towns.
Drive-ins were known as a place for young people to neck, and a place for families with kids. Since you parked by speakers connected to poles by wire, you could put the speaker in your car and rolled up the window for privacy. Most drive-ins had playground for youngsters. Some had musical entertainment before the movies and fireworks on special occasion.
It was pretty rare for a drive-in to show first run movies. Some would pickup the good movies on a second run but most drive-ins specialize in B movies, lots of horror movies, sci-fi, westerns.
By the early 60's TV with increasing numbers of movies was taken it's toll on drive-ins. If you want privacy watching a movie, why drive 5 miles and pay money to sit in your car and watch a movie when you can do the same thing for free in your living room.

Within a few years Drive-ins were charging by the carload, sometimes as low as $1 a car. Today there are only 300 left in the country. Most run seasonally only and often on weekends only. It is not uncommon to see flea markets, and farmer markets operating in drive-ins.

The day of the drive-in movie is mostly gone leaving only memories of Saturday night at the drive-in.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I've never been to one.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

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I can't remember the last time I went to a drive-in. In my teens -- 50 years or more.

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[ScorpioRising007]

Its been a couple years since the closest one to us is about 50 miles.

I went a couple years ago. There is one by family relatives I have that live off of farm land.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Now I want to go.

AI tells me that the closest is West Wind Las Vegas Drive-In

 

[Crepitus]

Its been a couple years since the closest one to us is about 50 miles.

Like 1985 I think?

 

[whoisit]

Like 1985 I think?

Our drive in is also 50 or more miles away, but it's worth it if a good movie is playing to go now and then.

 

[Crepitus]

Our drive in is also 50 or more miles away, but it's worth it if a good movie is playing to go now and then.

There's one right here in town. I've never been.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

There's one right here in town. I've never been.

Take your sweetie, and use the concession stand.

You will love it.

 

[whoisit]

Drive-in movies reach there peak in the late 50's with 4,000 in operation. The first drive-in opened in early 30's. They were located mostly in rural areas and medium size cities and towns.
Drive-ins were known as a place for young people to neck, and a place for families with kids. Since you parked by speakers connected to poles by wire, you could put the speaker in your car and rolled up the window for privacy. Most drive-ins had playground for youngsters. Some had musical entertainment before the movies and fireworks on special occasion.
It was pretty rare for a drive-in to show first run movies. Some would pickup the good movies on a second run but most drive-ins specialize in B movies, lots of horror movies, sci-fi, westerns.
By the early 60's TV with increasing numbers of movies was taken it's toll on drive-ins. If you want privacy watching a movie, why drive 5 miles and pay money to sit in your car and watch a movie when you can do the same thing for free in your living room.

Within a few years Drive-ins were charging by the carload, sometimes as low as $1 a car. Today there are only 300 left in the country. Most run seasonally only and often on weekends only. It is not uncommon to see flea markets, and farmer markets operating in drive-ins.

The day of the drive-in movie is mostly gone leaving only memories of Saturday night at the drive-in.

I liked the drive in as a child and as an adult.
I took my kids in the 70s then grandkids a couple times in mid to late 2000's.
A drive is is not the same as sitting at home, kids like it better than watching tv or movie's at home.
Of course, now most can't get offline or cell phones long enough to enjoy anything else, sad!

 

[Crepitus]

Take your sweetie, and use the concession stand.

You will love it.

It's 100* in the shade right now.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

It's 100* in the shade right now.

Wait for the fall.

 

[Flopper]

Our drive in is also 50 or more miles away, but it's worth it if a good movie is playing to go now and then.

The last time I went to a drive-in which was about 50 years ago, it cost $2 per carload. What does it cost now?

 

[petro]

Last time was about in the '80's.

But I remember going with my parents a lot as a child and seeing all the old Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns.
Always remember the smell of popcorn, playing at the playground during intermission, and the DDT mosquito fogger truck that went through as we danced and ran through the fog.

 

[Zincwarrior]

What the hell? Drive ins died out five decades ago.

 

[petro]

What the hell? Drive ins died out five decades ago.

There were still a few around.
Last one by us closed ten years ago.
You got the movie sound by tuning in your radio.
Never went there though, it was still fifty miles away.

 

[whoisit]

The last time I went to a drive-in which was about 50 years ago, it cost $2 per carload. What does it cost now?

as of 2025 adults $6 children 6=12 $3.