Drive-ins ~ any left where you are?

[Sleepyskull]

I've never been but a place called Bengies is near me. http://www.bengies.com/Home.php

According to their website they have the largest movie theater screen in the USA!

I want to go now...

[Trevor]

From the Bengies' Drive-In's list of house rules:

2a) DO NOT Let Your Dog Hike Its Leg & Pee On Our Speaker Posts.

[retrorussell]

The closest I have to me is the 99 in Newberg, about 20 miles from where I live.  There's 3 others in Oregon currently running.  The ones I used to go to back in the day are defunct by over 20 years.

[The Burgomaster]

I live in Massachusetts and there are at least 2 in my general area:  one is in Mendon, MA and the other is in Milford, NH.  My wife and I went to the one in Milford 2 summers ago.  It was "roll back the clocks" night at the snack bar and they had a bunch of really cheap stuff on the menu ($1.00, I think, for hot dogs, popcorn, burgers, and some other things).  I love eating all the crappy food from the snack bar.  I just wish they had drive-ins like they did in the 1970s that would show horror triple features.  There was a drive-in in Revere, MA when I was a kid and it seemed like every summer they'd run the same triple feature for a week.  They called it "3 Houses of Hell" and they'd show LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT, THE HOUSE THAT VANISHED, and THE HOUSE THAT DRIPPED BLOOD (sometimes they'd alternate one of these with another movie like DON'T LOOK IN THE BASEMENT, but they'd always advertise it as "3 Houses of Hell.")  These days, the drive-ins around here only show recent releases.

[Newt]

It's really too bad that modern drive-in attendees cannot easily experience the delight of cheesy triple horror features under the stars.  I have fond childhood memories of summer nights at the drive-in watching multiple Vincent Price films or triple features built around "She".  Those were the days!

The nearest drive-in to me has a rental program - they have smaller, portable screens available for private functions.  I assume you'd be able to choose the films.  I'd love to be able to set that up to celebrate my eldest son's 21st birthday!

In that line of thought: I must mention AndyC's efforts to bring back the experience (albeit on a smaller scale).  Andy presented a 'bad movies under the stars' night successfully last summer at his local Sunflower Festival.  I believe he said he was set to do it again this year?  Wouldn't THAT be a fun Badmovies outing - with the bonus of being set in some of Ontario's prettiest cottage/vacation country.

[The Burgomaster]

By the way, here is a pretty good website:

http://www.drive-ins.com/

[Nukie 2]

There's one near me, but they only play the big Hollywood movies.

TV banned as the Devil's Box? What kind of ideology did your government have?

[JaseSF]

There used to be one about an half hour drive away. Sadly it closed down in the mid-90s. I did catch No Holds Barred (1989) starring Hulk Hogan there. The second movie was Cyborg.

[claws]

I think I've mentioned this before in another thread, there is a Drive-in for U.S. Soldiers if they are lucky enough to be stationed on a Military base in Rota, Spain. That is not exactly located at where I am now, but we used to spend our summer vacations on that base (it had a beautiful camp site) and would go each night to the Drive-in. It had a playground for kids underneath the screen, a concession stand offering all sorts of freshly made hot food (I miss their delicious pepperoni & mushroom pizza), snacks and drinks, plus a small arcade video game area and indoor seating.
Haven't been there in years but I did a google earth search recently and noticed the Drive-in is still there and apparently are still showing movies.

[oxode]

Yes.

[the ghoul]

We have one in Vegas.

[Jordan]

The Circle Drive-In resides less than an hour from my current home. They still do a double bill and I love to get tons of junk from the concession stand/building. It's worth going once if they have a decent double feature, but sometimes they start the movies too soon, and the audio usually sucks because they broadcast it on an AM band, since all the speakers have been stolen or just taken down after all these years.

[BoyScoutKevin]

How far is Ennis from where I live? That's probably the nearest to me.

The latest issue of "Texas Highways" Magazine had an article about the remaining drive-in theaters in Texas.

There are 16 left in Texas. Of course, that's 5 more then there was a decade ago.

Of course, at that rate, to reach the heyday of drive-in theaters in Texas, which would be 1954, when there were 388 of them in the state, it'll take another 186 years.

[Allhallowsday]

We never went to the drive-in to watch the movie... 

[The Burgomaster]

We never went to the drive-in to watch the movie... 

I remember taking my girlfriend to see Friday the 13th parts 1, 2, and 3 at the drive-in.  They had already been released on VHS and been on cable and stuff, but I thought it would be cool to see the triple feature at the drive-in anyway.  I was sort of ticked off when I suddenly noticed a chunk of about 15 minutes missing from part 1 . . . then I realized they probably needed to end the movies by a certain time to meet a town curfew or something, so they didn't show them in their entirety!  Anyway, before part 1 ended it started raining pretty hard and my girlfriend and I found better things to do than watch the movie.  Ah, the debauchery of youth . . .