The headline says that the 1st drive in theater...opened 78 years ago today. According to an AARP article ...the number of drive-ins has dropped from 4000... to less than 400.
I remember the drive in...Sunset Drive-in...as I remember it called...on the outskirts of Evansville...that you could see the movie screen from Hwy 41 as you drove by. There was also one outside Princeton...the Starlite Drive-in...as I recall...also on Hwy 41...but you couldn't see the screen from the road. I remember going to both of them as a youngster.
There were several drive-ins near Vincennes that we went to during high school...in fact Cindy and I saw several movies there during our dating years.
There was a drive-in in Lafayette when we moved here in the late 70's that we went to lots of times. It was cheap entertainment...with a special feel that brought back good feelings from younger years.
All the above drive-ins...are among the 3600 drive-ins that are no longer in existence.
There's still a drive-in in Monticello...a small community about 35 minutes to our north. We took the kids there a number of times when they were small...and it's still there...and now our kids...are taking their kids there.
It's quite a fun time at the drive-in...an interesting experience that I recall from my younger years...and I'm glad there's some still around that my grandchildren can experience.
It's one of the few things left that I can tell the grandkids about...without them thinking that papaw is crazy...and talking about something from 100 years ago when papaw was a little boy!
Dan
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