Leto: Was that a 2-4 of Elsinore? Sorry, couldn't resist, hubbies favorite movie.
Here in our area of West Michigan there's only one drive-in and every year it seems like it's dying the same death that most others have.
My family didn't have much money when I was a kid, so going to the drive-in was a treat. I remember that my Dad would pop and butter enough popcorn to half fill a brown paper bag for us to eat that we'd "smuggle" in. He'd also fill a cooler with our Diet Pepsi's and buy a big box of Jujube's to take.
I was always jealous and salivating at the smell of all the fried and fast food smells in the "intermission" stand when I went to use the bathroom.
The last movie I remember seeing part of as a kid was the re-make of "The Thing" with Kurt Russell. Glad I was 11 and fell asleep. It was the second movie of a double feature or I might still be traumatized.
Funny how cheesy it's seems now in retrospect.
Ali