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alicat · 05-08-2007, 04:25 PM

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

05-08-2007, 04:25 PM	#22 (permalink)
alicat Baffled Location: West Michigan	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 __________________ 'Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun, The frumious Bandersnatch!'--Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll "You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late."--Ralph Waldo Emerson