A Retro Theatre Experience

   On a popular podcast I was listening to today, the hosts were reminiscing about the good old days of drive-in theaters.

   I think I only ever went to see a movie at a drive-in once. I can't recall what was playing but my brother and I were both young and our parents were still married so it must have been the early '80s. I remember walking to the snack bar and back and thinking that the whole scene, with all the cars and the two giant screens, was pretty spectacular.

   The two drive-ins we had in the town I grew up in are both long shut down. One quickly became a swap meet and the other remained a place where miscreant teenagers with beater cars would go "jumping."

   A quick look on Google Maps shows that at least pieces of both remain today. The swap meet one looks to have been taken over by the neighboring auto junkyard, though it looks like one of its two screens might still exist, and the other appears to be used as a parking lot for something..I'll have to investigate a bit in a few months when I head out that way.

   Wouldn't it be awesome if someone opened a new one just for the hell of it?