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Will old time drive ins come back in style
- Thread starter Riders
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PoetPhilosopher
Veteran Member
No idea. Right now they are expediting the release of digital movies. For example, that new Hedgehog movie is already out.
McBell
Resident Sourpuss
The three me and mine visit:
Riders
Well-Known Member
That's interesting.
Terry Sampson
Well-Known Member
Maybe, but there will still be a problem: In a Corona Virus-plagued world, the intelligent will be wearing face masks at a minimum and possibly full-body Personal Protective Body Covering and driving to the drive-ins in separate cars.
McBell
Resident Sourpuss
Growing up my family was all the time going to drive in movies.
Back then "Car load" nights were popular.
Basically anyone you can get in or on the vehicle got in for a single price of like $5-$10.
We would go to Long John Silvers and get all the "crumbs" we could get our hands on, load up the trucks, cars, vans, etc. and spend the night at the theater.
Of course, back then they played both movies twice...
Back then "Car load" nights were popular.
Basically anyone you can get in or on the vehicle got in for a single price of like $5-$10.
We would go to Long John Silvers and get all the "crumbs" we could get our hands on, load up the trucks, cars, vans, etc. and spend the night at the theater.
Of course, back then they played both movies twice...
McBell
Resident Sourpuss
Some drive in theaters are opening up for churches to use:
Church at the drive-in: How one Pa. religious community is adapting to the coronavirus
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article241604316.html
https://whyy.org/articles/honking-h...a-becomes-church-during-coronavirus-shutdown/
‘It’s nice to be out:’ Minnesota church creates drive-in theater for community members
Church at the drive-in: How one Pa. religious community is adapting to the coronavirus
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article241604316.html
https://whyy.org/articles/honking-h...a-becomes-church-during-coronavirus-shutdown/
‘It’s nice to be out:’ Minnesota church creates drive-in theater for community members
Riders
Well-Known Member
Car drive-ins were popular in the 70s when I was a kid. I remember seeing the scary movie The Town That dreaded Sundown with my sisters in the drive-through. A true story about an Arkansas town who had a serial killer in the 1940s.
You could make it happen by petitioning for fewer restrictions and inspections for drive through movies. Make it so any farmer can throw up a screen and broadcast audio over bluetooth, and you might found a new cottage industry.
Friends loaded a couch in a half ton.
McBell
Resident Sourpuss
We found that the couch actually reduced the room for people....
Haha ha!
Maybe it's an Indiana thing. That was "going to the movies", when I was a kid.
Back of a station wagon.
And the movie was always either "Sound of Music" or "Mary Poppins". With some cartoons before.
I've never liked going to picture radio shows since.
Tom
How could anybody profitably monetize a streaming service requiring consumers to sit in a modern car?
What made drive in movies work was huge cars. Living rooms on wheels.
People still have those, but the ones who do aren't interested in leaving their home theater to watch one thing, at the same time, without a very private bathroom.
Tom
It wouldn't work year round but might attract people for special events and holidays such as Halloween.