Funny. It was Bacardi 151 for me.
Why does that not surprise me?
Truthfully, in those days I drank Lone Star beer. Still have a few occasionally.
I've always heard Lone Star was a very inferior beer. Sort of like a Rhinelander of the Midwest.
You guys were old enough to drink when they still had drive-ins?
Wow.
I'll have to try to be more respectful.
People who like the sissy taste of Bud Light or Miller Light often put down my Lone Star. Would that they were man enough to enjoy it (or woman enough, as the case may be).
Isn't Lone Star just bottled porcupine urine?
That's what I've heard.
Well, let me tell ya. Nothin can be lower than Strawberry Hill or Boones Farm, so let edgar enjoy his beer for goodness sakes.
Ya ever smell porcupine musk?
mannnnnnnnn, it's like the worst B.O. you could imagine and then some <shudder>
Armadillo urine, to be exact, gus.
Thanks, Letty, maybe I will.
littlek wrote:There is one drive-in theater I know of which still plays movies - it's in Wellfleet MA, on cape cod. It doubles as a flea market thursday-sunday. I haven't been to see a movie there for a few years. They built a standard theater on the same property. The choices at the standard theater are usually more to my liking.
As a teen, I used to go with friends to a drive-in in Chelmsford, MA. It's been gone for a number of years now.
When I was growing up, we vacationed in Cape Cod every summer, usually Wellfleet, and often at night we would go to a drive in that showed a double feature. I was in the back seat and almost always unconscious by the second movie. We often stayed in a place called the Holden Inn. My father would take me fishing on the Wellfleet dock. Haven't been there in 30 years.
I can't remember the last time I went to a drive-in. Most of them are gone now. There is still a drive-in in Hamilton, Ontario. I don't know if many people go to it.
Brandon, it's prolly largely the same. The drive in, for sure. The buildings in the area may be different/newer, the dunes on the ocean side have been resculpted several times, but the drive in is the same.
littlek wrote:Brandon, it's prolly largely the same. The drive in, for sure. The buildings in the area may be different/newer, the dunes on the ocean side have been resculpted several times, but the drive in is the same.
Thank you for the update. It's interesting to know what a place that holds many memories is like today. I think I'd like to go back sometime, although there would certainly be a lot of ghosts there for me.
Ahhhhhh....back in "the day", there was nothing like pulling an all-niter in the summer at a drive-in theater...I saw some incredible movies ("Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Godfather", to name 2 that I remember), drank my first beer and had my first extended make-out sessions at these asphalt parks. In my city of about 300,000 people (a lot fewer back then), there were probably 15-20 different drive-ins...now it's down to one double screen park. I suspect it's a piece of American gone the way of the original Route 66.
I'm still waiting for ours to open.
The artist Charles Fazzino has just released a classic piece of pop art on the drive-in, "20th Century Fox At the Movies" but unfortunately there isn't a visual of it on line yet. It's a drive-in with all the famous 20th Century Fox stars in black-and-white surrounded by the milieu of a drive-in. There's 50's and 60's automobiles like the old Chevy Bel-Air (with the ugly fin clad with an embossed aluminum panel), the double bullet tail lights on the way oversized fins on a Cadillac and a Ford hot-rod. There's a group of people getting out of the trunk of the Chevy. I'll keep my eye out for a visual (I guess I could photograph it in the gallery and scan it in).
