I used to live by the Vineland in La Puente. In the daytime it's a swapmeet. I went to the Sundown in Whittier and I saw Peter Pan and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

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I like this Drive-in themed video.

I remember going to a few as a kid but unfortunately most of the drive-ins from back then are gone. One was torn down to put in yet another wal-mart and the other became a parking lot for some construction company. The others I either forget where they are or they're a zillion miles away. Just as well it's kind of awkward trying to get it on with your girlfriend when there's a rusted out 1990 Dodge Caravan full of some welfare skank and her brood of crotchfruits staring at you in the next spot over.  

I'm thankful that I still have a local drive-in. At least for the time being. (One of two closed to years ago..walmart bought the lot) It is so wonderful, to me, that my daughter loves it just as much as I did, and still do. Almost all of my favorite movie memories took place at the drive in. Batman, Batman Returns, the Flintstones.. I would always set up two chairs, one for my feet, wrap up in a blanket, and tune my boombox to the station. Always in the slot adjacent to my parents car. My own little spot. 

fuschnikt wrote :

I'm thankful that I still have a local drive-in. At least for the time being. (One of two closed to years ago..walmart bought the lot) It is so wonderful, to me, that my daughter loves it just as much as I did, and still do. Almost all of my favorite movie memories took place at the drive in. Batman, Batman Returns, the Flintstones.. I would always set up two chairs, one for my feet, wrap up in a blanket, and tune my boombox to the station. Always in the slot adjacent to my parents car. My own little spot.  -end quote

That's awesome fuschnikt! I have memories of going to the local drive-in, but sadly it was demolished about a decade ago. I WISH I would have first watched Batman at the drive-in! My memory of seeing it the first time would have been so much more potent.

I saw one film at a drive-in. It was well over a decade ago in the summer of 2004, the Will Smith film I, Robot. Since we had limited room in our car, I stood next to the car for the entire movie.

I actually wrote a paper about drive-ins just last semester. The intro read like one of my retro-daze articles. 

Rick Ace Rhodes wrote :

I think there's actually still a drive-in in a neighboring town near me.

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It's one of those things you take for granted. You think it's neat that one is there, but you really don't go there much. Then, when it's gone, you think "Man... I should have went there more often."