Longtime Cladrite Radio readers know that we’re awfully fond of drive-in theatres.
If you’ve ever wondered about what it is that makes so imprints the drive-in experience on the hearts and souls of some folks, Adam Carboni‘s lovely video profile of Roger Babcock and his Hi-Way Drive-in in Coxsackie, NY, is well worth watching (and there’s a “tip jar” on the film’s Vimeo page, if you’d like to chip in to help with the theatre’s conversion to digital).
Longtime readers probably know that we’re huge devotees of drive-in movie theatres, so we perked right up recently when we watched a Richard Karn-hosted edition of Family Feud that included a question about ozoners.
The question was, “Name a rule at a drive-in theatre”; six answers were posted on the board, and the two families combined to name three of them.
Wondering how many you might be able to guess? Just watch the video below to test your Drive-in Theatre Etiquette I.Q.
We don’t often repeat posts, but on this date every year, we make an exception:
It was 81 years ago tonight that the world’s first drive-in theatre opened in Camden, N.J. It was the brainchild of one Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr. The first movie shown at the first drive-in? Wives Beware, starring Adolphe Menjou (Wives Beware was originally released some months before under the title Two White Arms).
Mr. Hollingshead’s theatre is long gone, we’re sad to report, but the second drive-in ever built—Shankweiler’s DI in Orefield, Penn.—is still going strong.
If you’re within an hour’s drive of an ozoner, you owe it to yourself to pack up the kids and take in a movie under the stars tonight. Not sure if there’s a drive-in near you? Drive-ins.com is the place to find out.
And just to whet your appetite, we’ll share these drive-in intermission clips with you, plus a television advertisement for a now-much-coveted Remco miniature drive-in toy from the 1950s (watch for a familiar face in the commercial).
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We don’t often repeat posts, but on this date every year, we make an exception:
It was 80 years ago tonight that the world’s first drive-in theatre opened in Camden, N.J. It was the brainchild of one Richard M. Hollingshead, Jr. The first movie shown at the first drive-in? Wives Beware, starring Adolphe Menjou (Wives Beware was originally released some months before under the title Two White Arms).
Mr. Hollingshead’s theatre is long gone, we’re sad to report, but the second drive-in ever built—Shankweiler’s DI in Orefield, Penn.—is still going strong.
If you’re within an hour’s drive of an ozoner, you owe it to yourself to pack up the kids and take in a movie under the stars tonight. Not sure if there’s a drive-in near you? Drive-ins.com is the place to find out.
And just to whet your appetite, we’ll share these drive-in intermission clips with you, plus a television advertisement for a now-much-coveted Remco miniature drive-in toy from the 1950s (watch for a familiar face in the commercial).