I hear all the youngsters now with fond memories of going to blockbuster after school on Friday night with Mom and Dad to rent movies and videeyah games. I never saw them go, myself. One day they were there, the next… poof! Gone…
It was the same with the drive ins. For awhile ya saw stuff like this and they were like old tombstones. Then even they were gone when hungry developers gobbled up the land they had stood on.
I used to work at the "walk-in" and the drive-in where I live. You called them the walk-in and the drive-in because those were the only two theaters in town. The walk-in is a historic site now; over 100 years old. The drive-in is long gone. Ironically, there's a Sonic drive-in burger place sitting on the site!
ReplyDeleteOne drive-in stood vacant for about a decade before someone else bought the property. I couldn't even tell you what's there now. I can remember my parents taking me there as a small kid, playing on the little playground before it got dark and eating hot dogs and popcorn in the backseat. They'd play bugs bunny cartoons before the main feature. The other was located just outside city limits and switched to porno sometime in the late 70's and kept going for another decade. I remember that as a standing joke thru high school. Never went myself, but I imagine it's long gone too. I think there's still one operational drive-in somewhere in Texas, I actually drove past it once years back. Someone keeps it going, probably at a loss, just for shits and grins I guess.
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