Found this neat site.
www.drive-ins.com
My hubby is actually going to take me to one that is about 2 hours from us, we are going to make a weekend of it. I am hopeing to hit a few caches as well.

The next time you're in Atlanta, you need to hit the Starlite Drive-In on Moreland Avenue. The whole experience is like some surreal time machine trip.

We used to enjoy going to the drive in theater in Gwinnett just inside the perimeter on I-85. Of course they couldn't leave such a nostalgic place alone and now it's the site of a 24-screen multiplex.

Sometimes I'd just rather have to choose between two movies, get a group of friends together to stake out several spots close together and have a family-style tailgate party before watching the movie after dark. It's sad that this is nearly impossible to do any more.

I enjoying going to the drive in at Blue Ridge, Ga.
It brings my good memories.

I had never seen a drive in theater until I was in Colorado a few weeks ago. we were driving along the road and saw what appeared to be a giant sign facing the wrong way and when we passed it the front was blank white, then we saw the sign. Sure enough it was a drive-in we wanted to go but they were only showing "RV" and they really didnt float our boat.

And you have no idea who Hopalong Cassidy is, or Dale Evans, or Jay Silverheels. THE grassy knoll is only a picture in a book, and Chappaquidik is a place in Massachusetts. I like Ike makes no sense, and John Glenn has ALWAYS been old to you. Friendship 7 is not a tv show, and Buster Brown is seldom seen. His Master's Voice sounds like a rock band, and Ironsides is a ship you read about somewhere (not a tv show). My dad was alive when Calvin Cooledge was President and before there was a United Nations. By the time I came along, Truman had already dropped the bomb twice, and the idea of the Authobahn not quite yet been imported to the US. Unfortunately, some people couldn't eat at the same counter as me as I was by some accident of fate born white. I remember Peter, Paul and Mary singing before MLK made his "I have a dream" speech, and gosh, I won't even go into how close I came to parenthood as a result of the drive-in theater. Remember how annoying the speakers were? You could never get them to the right sound, and if you did, you usually didn't care. Gotta run. Sigh, make me feel old again another day.

Rapidly turning gray......

I remember all that stuff.

Well when my father was born
Woodrow Wilson is president of the US,
The first stop sign appeared in Detroit, Michigan. In Washington DC the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place. Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched for the alleged murder of a 13-year-old girl in Atlanta, Georgia. Emory College is rechartered as Emory University, and plans to move its main campus from Oxford, Georgia to Atlanta.

But when I came along Dwight D. Eisenhower was president.

I remember taking the girl who was to become my wife to a drive-in. I also remember going as a kid with my parents and then later taking my kids. Had to park closer to the screen to avoid them seeing the "action" in the back rows.

Note I am not get grey hair, it falls out before it can change.

Now Birdies, some of us remember all these and the following:

Kukla, Fran and Ollie, Spanky and Our Gang, and Captain Kangaroo entertained us in the afternoon on a 9” TV screen. George Reeves always fought for truth justice and the American way. Clayton Moore rode with Jay Silverheels. Duncan Renaldo rode with Poncho in another western. We even remember Flash Gordon and “Only the Shadow Knows” on the radio. Johnnie Weismuller was the real Tarzan. We knew Ike was a Republican too. Yancy Derringer was on TV and we even remember the Indian name of his sidekick. Mr. Wizard taught us basic science. The real 007 was Sean Connery in our world. We remember Roy and Dale had a dog named Bullet.

The prince didn’t sing he married Grace Kelly in Monaco. We remember Burl Ives, Pat Boone, Rosemary Clooney, Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Bill Haley and the Comets. Add Fats Domino, Ricky Nelson, the Everly Brothers, Jerry Lee Lewis and Chubby Checker. Marty Robbins did El Paso, the Shadows played Apache, the Tornadoes did Telstar and Roy Orbison had us Crying.

Anyone born after 1960 missed all this. This history can only be found in our memories, old books, on the Internet, or found in our 78, 33 1/3 and 45 rpm records or those vinyls converted to digital mp3 recordings. This all shows that submarine races and drive-ins could be blamed for the “Baby Boomers.”

The OLD Marietta Moose

Captain Kangaroo. Oh, man. Decrepitude is fast approaching.

I was actually in the "Peanut Gallery" for one show.

No one has mentioned the local show on WSB.. The Woody Willow Show.....not to mention my favorite Saturday morning network show when I was about five...Winky Dink.... and Saturday afternoon at the Peach Theater brought Lash Larue. Amazingracer... I have visited the 41 Drive In... The Riverside Drive In ... The Dixie Drive In and the Weiss Drive In ... in my time... all in Macon....The Weiss had the distiction of being an "air conditioned" drive in, the air conditioning duct went in the window like the speaker... also remember Tom Jones performing live on stage there under the screen before a movie. Come on Amazingracer... surely you have heard of Tom Jones??????

My brother who is 10 years younger than me, was a great fan of Officer Don, a locally-produced TV show in Atlanta.

When I first started watching TV it didn't run all day. After the afternoon soaps went off, the screen went back to the Indian Chief until it was time for the 6 o'clock news. Jack Parr did the Tonight Show, and Howdy Doody was my best friend. Red Skelton was my favorite comedian, and I really liked "Sing along with Mitch." My family actually sang the songs. I was entranced with Gene Kelly and Maurice Chevallier but then I figured out they were really pretty ancient in real life. Remember when dentists did NOT have high-speed drills? It was so much easier to handle the dentist then. And there were no computers. We lived on my dad's salary. Dog food was an idea that was just beginning to be marketed. And, thank the Lord, antibiotics were really beginning to be developed -- without them, I'd have never made it out of infancy. I remember listening to The Shadow and The Green Hornet at night on a NEW transister radio, when I was supposed to be asleep. I can also remember seeing the aurora borealis, which had a spectacular year due to sun spots back in oh....58 or 59, I think. I could sing "Davy Crockett" until you got nauseated, and 101 Dalmations was a NEW movie. So much for nostalgia. It wasn't all nice, so we probably shouldn't get lost in romaticizing the times.

darn younguns!

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darn younguns!

Old pharts!

I grew up in a Sub-Division next to Drive-in. I could sit and watch the screen from my bedroom window. I was never good at reading lips, so it took me years to find out that ...

"Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!"

Since we're on drive-ins and nostalgia - the first movie I remember seeing was at the site of Redworm's The Worm Goes to Hollywood; that theater used to be a drive-in. The movie was a low-budget, campy horror movie called "The Legend of Blood Mountain." Does anyone else remember this? It was filmed in Georgia, mostly at Stone Mountain and Lake Spivey. I was about five, so I guess mertat was there, but she would be too young to remember. The only scene I really remember was a Frankenstein-type monster chasing someone around some rocks to the tune of "In and Out the Window."

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Originally posted by Slayerette:
"Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!"

I always preferred the book it was based on (Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison). The depiction of the failure to plan for the future and match population to resources was much more pronounced in the book. Also there was no soylent green, just soylent steaks made of soya and lentil.

And birdies I remember going to a local show and seeing Officer Don in person. I remember getting a Davy Crockett "coonskin hat"

But somewhere I have a book titled "The good old days they were terrible". It points out that the good parts of the old days are remembered, but most people don't talk about the bad things. So the next generation like polio, death from childbirth, the lack of clean food (like getting milk from sick cows, mixing in some very bad stuff to make cheese go further). So I prefer the good new days over the good old days.

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Originally posted by Professor Shorthair:
Since we're on drive-ins and nostalgia - the first movie I remember seeing was at the site of Redworm's The Worm Goes to Hollywood; that theater used to be a drive-in. The movie was a low-budget, campy horror movie called "The Legend of Blood Mountain." Does anyone else remember this? It was filmed in Georgia, mostly at Stone Mountain and Lake Spivey. I was about five, so I guess mertat was there, but she would be too young to remember. The only scene I really remember was a Frankenstein-type monster chasing someone around some rocks to the tune of "In and Out the Window."

No, I wasn't too young to remember! But like you, I only remember the "In and Out the Window" scene.

I was also a huge Officer Don fan! I never got on the show but he did show up at a local fair one time.

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darn younguns!

Old pharts!

you'll talk about Dan Raid, scout, Nellie Belle,
Hoppy, and Howdy. Do I remember? Sure do, I was grown by the time televison came along. My Aunt had the first one that I seen. It was about a year after that before we got one. We had a radio, but it didn't get much play time.
I was busy building wagons, and other stuff with wheels. I love farm equipment or any thing else that had a motor. Dad had a car of his own after I started to school. When I was in the first grade he took me by car to my uncles so I could ride with him to town on a two horse wagon and a team of mules to get a load of supplies.
I can remember my first bottled coke. Up till then they were fontain cokes. I remember the first pay phone that I seen, in a big wooden sound proof booth inside a drug store. And a real biggie for me is my first grilled cheeze sandwich.

I can remember public pools closing and no more than 3 people being able to gather in one place at a time to talk because of meningitis or polio outbreaks.

I can remember being in a WARD and my parents having to leave when visiting hours were over when I was in the hospital.

I can remember my classmate dying from a form of lukemia that today is highly treatable.

I can remember that my dad working could provide for all of us adequately.

I can remember penny candy and redeaming coke bottles to be able to get the pennys for the candy.

I can remember having measles, mumps and rubella, chicken pox, and only having warm mineral oil to go in my ears when I had ear infections.

As much as poodle skirts and drive-ins, and saddle oxfords are nostalgic, Allen is right, the good old days were just as much the bad old days too. Life is complex in ever era.

While I do not remeber most of the things that have been mentioned.....
we did have a drive in movie whne I was growing up and it only showed only movies and shows.

We would go watch Grace Kelly, Clark Gabel, Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds, dancing and singing across the big screen. It was fun. Then they tore it down in 1990, I was 13.

Then they built a flea market in the spot. I would have rather had the movies....