The best movie you ever saw in your whole life in a Drive-In:

[Lone Clone]

My favorite scene of hers was from "The Deep" where she was wearing a wet t-shirt. I'm 67 and I still get wood when I think of that scene.

I'm almost 71 and if I didn't, I would consider myself dead, dead, dead.

Incidentally, if you have never seen the opening scenes of "Boy on a Dolphin," you owe it to yourself to do so. It's a young Sophia Loren doing what Bisset does in "The Deep," only more so. Pretty unbelievable for 1957.

 

[iowa surfer]

This is kind of what I was getting at ... What it was like to grow up by going to drive-in movies ... or rather coming of age through those experiences.

Imagine! Many of us discovered Jacqueline Bisset at a drive-in movie. She is definitely an icon of the era!

Indeed.Also the Deep!

 

[SalAunese]

Saw "National Lampoon's European Vacation" at the drive in in Charles City as a young kid. I remember the porn drive in on the west end of Mason City. It's a car dealership nowadays. There's a drive-in still in operation just NE of Spirit Lake as you come south on the highway from Jackson, MN

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

I'm almost 71 and if I didn't, I would consider myself dead, dead, dead.

Incidentally, if you have never seen the opening scenes of "Boy on a Dolphin," you owe it to yourself to do so. It's a young Sophia Loren doing what Bisset does in "The Deep," only more so. Pretty unbelievable for 1957.

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The one really good thing about facebook is that there are facebook pages for Ms. Loren, as well as Raquel Welch which make it somewhat bearable!

 

[SSG T]

Ft Lauderdale has a 5 screen complex.........depending on the movie...that place is packed on a weekend night.

The one in Newton will have a line of cars parked along the side of the road for 1/2 mile in each direction when they open for an evening and if it's even a decent movie, it will be full nearly an hour before the movie starts.

 

[JRHawk2003]

The one in Newton will have a line of cars parked along the side of the road for 1/2 mile in each direction when they open for an evening and if it's even a decent movie, it will be full nearly an hour before the movie starts.

When its a big movie in the middle of the Summer, we aim to get there at like 5:45...15 minutes before the gate opens to get a spot in the front rows. We bring a frisbee soccer ball and football. I bring a book sometimes and listen to baseball on the radio. Me and the kids really love it. If I take them to the Valle, I spend like $35 on tickets. We load up a cooler and get snacks at the store and maybe a few there too, but that is around $25. As opposed to Wehrenberg in CR where I spend about $100 a movie for me and the kids on tickets, popcorn and drinks.

 

[SSG T]

When its a big movie in the middle of the Summer, we aim to get there at like 5:45...15 minutes before the gate opens to get a spot in the front rows. We bring a frisbee soccer ball and football. I bring a book sometimes and listen to baseball on the radio. Me and the kids really love it. If I take them to the Valle, I spend like $35 on tickets. We load up a cooler and get snacks at the store and maybe a few there too, but that is around $25. As opposed to Wehrenberg in CR where I spend about $100 a movie for me and the kids on tickets, popcorn and drinks.

We do the same. We'll try to get 3-4 of us together and just have a picnic/buffet type of a thing. Get the adults in front of a couple of the vehicles and the kids in front of the rest.