My folks had a huge station wagon. Mom made the back down into a huge bed for we 4 kids. She made popcorn and other goodies at home that we brought with us. So much fun! I miss my parents so much. We may not have had much but we made up for it with love and togetherness.
My family also had the old Rambler station wagon and we would also make up the back as a bed. We packed sandwiches and snacks and bought our sodas at the drive-iin counter. We would get there while it was still light on those Friday and Saturday Summer nights, and play on the swings that were in the grassy areas near the huge screen, until it was dusk and ready to watch the movie(s), as there were almost always double features. Oh, how I miss the 60's, my wonderful parents and those wonderfully innocent times!
@Zeke on Storm peak Hiding in the trunk, we would sneak into the Miracle Mile Drive-In on Glenn, the Prince Drive-In on Prince Road, and the Tucson 4 Drive-In at Grant and I-10 in Tucson Arizona during the Summer of 1972. By Summer of 1973, we would ride our bicycles to the drive-in with small packs and aluminum lawn chairs strapped to our backs. We'd lock our bikes up nearby. Then we would either climb over or under the fence, depending on specifics. We would set up our chairs close enough to a family who had, as was not uncommon at the time due to Summer heat, gotten out of their car to sit on lawn chairs. Somehow, by Summer of 1974, we had aged out of that extremely fun and memorable behavior.
My family went the drive in two or three times a month. Mom would make a bunch of popcorn and put it in two paper grocery bags, one for mom and dad in the front seat and one for the back seat for me and my sister. Sometimes we took dad's pick-up, parked backwards and used lawn chairs or laid down on blankets. Good times, simple times.
I remember my family stopping at an A&W root beer stand and picking up a gallon glass jug of root beer and glass mugs to take to the drive-in. You then returned them on your next visit.
Takes me back to the playground under the screen and running back to the car when the cartoons came on. Mom made popcorn at home and brought it in a grocery brown bag with butter stains coming through. We usually brought Shasta drinks and sandwiches. Dad would get out and clean the windows and hang the speaker on the window. We would settle in for a double feature. Usually my brother and I were asleep by the middle of the second. Good times.
When I was five and six years old, my family would go to the drive-in theater. My mom would dress me in my footed pajamas (I remember having a yellow and a red pair) and we would get there at dusk. There was a playground in sand in the front of the projection screen and I could play until the movie started (by myself back then!), then run back to the car, a 58 Plymouth with fins. I would have sand trapped in the feet until I went home and mom would take my pajamas off and shake them out.
@@foobarmaximus3506 Good times indeed! When the bottoms got worn out or feet outgrew the footsie part, did your mom also cut them off? And you no longer had cozy safe feet. I remember that happening a couple of times!
As a 4/5 year old in 1964 I remember being so excited in the back of our station wagon, only to wake up on the way home, very mad and sulking that I'd fell asleep.lol
I don't have to wish for those days,"thank God!" We still have four drive-ins near me. And every one still play most off these intermission. And to top it off I always drive my 62 Plymouth to add to the full affect. But I still have to bring my own drive- in speaker for the look! For most drive-ins broadcast on the airwaves. The last time I was at the drive-in was believe it or not was to watch the intermissions, the movies were junk! The drive-in was having a marathon of intermissions.
Growing up in southern California drive-ins were one of the joys of summer - or just about any time of the year. There was one drive-in my ex and friends would go to quite a bit. We all had trucks or vans - We'd back in the back of the lot, backwards. Then set up beach chairs in the truck beds. We usually brought big paper shopping bags of our own popcorn - and coolers with our own drinks, too. Still - I would always go to the snack shack at intermission and buy a small box of ice cream 'bon bons' --- Small scoops of ice cream dipped in a hard chocolate shell. There was a playground at the base of the big screen with a small wading pool for kids and their parents. Those were good times --- We'd get two movies with a long intermission full of cartoons and coming attractions.
Believe this - The typical outdoor cinema nowadays survives primarily by way of those snack bar concessions. You want to keep the drive-ins going, BUY something! 🍕🥓🍔🍟🍦🍿
this was the Downer's Grove IL drive in theater, one of the best Drive In movie theaters in the Chicago Land area. The Dairy Queen location gave it away. The Dairy Queen there still exists.
I remember as a kid in the 70’s going to the drive for $1 carload nights. That’s when we got McDonald’s or Jack n the box as well as mom bringing homemade popcorn for second feature. We had a local drive here that only closed about 4 yrs ago, so it was nice to have my kid’s experience this too. They loved going in their pjs with friends and relaxing.
It’s crazy. I’m a millenial but I feel like I know this era. Maybe partially from my parents maybe from my deep dive into the past or even the fact that when I was a kid, my family went to a few drive-in theaters ourselves & those are just faint memories now. It’s even crazier though that as I grew up, we still used corded phones & eventually early cellphones & now we have smartphones & laptops we take for granted. Pluto was still a planet & thought of as a cold gray world, now it’s classified as a dwarf & we know it’s actually a beautiful & complex world. When I started school, we still used chalkboards & overhead projecters. By the time we graduated, I had a school-issued iPad & used a MacBook in class as well as used SmartBoards. So many changes in such a short time..
You had to time it right so you didn't tear through it before the movie began or miss the movie. No matter how well you planned, there was always the family that sent the one child who couldn't remember it all or carry it or the guy who wanted to ask questions. We were all happy, though, when they came back carrying everything -- except your candy bar.
Hahaha!!! When I was young, I was in the trunk a few times, taken by my aunt and my 2 cousins. My cousins weren't in the trunk. Drive-ins were great fun! I loved them.
These are the classic nostalgia - Dozens of little animated clips from different decades all cobbled together, many of them with scratches on the film, clipped audio and very distinct music and animation styles all mashed together to make intermission reels. You might watch an intermission reel and it might have shorts from 3 different decades along with local slides advertising churches or local businesses.
i made a few "Custom" intermissions myself for a Video project back in high school and this reminds me of the days my grandpa took me to the double feature at the drive-in back in my elementary school days (he made sure i didn't fall asleep during the movies, he let me have a nap during the intermission and the drive back home)
I have a few memory's of going to the drive in theater ; the oldest was my mom & dad taking my brother & me , we would were our pajamas there so we would be ready for bed when we got home . This particular night I had my pink nighty & satin pink robe on .. my brother & I went to the snack stand & got delicious hot dogs & sparkling soda's . I fell asleep on the drive home & my dad picked me up , carried me in the house & tucked me in . I was only about four years old but I remember it like it was yesterday . I'd give anything to go back to my childhood for even one day 🌉.!
Oh the memories these bring back. We used to have a small drive-in that showed old movies (the original "Jaws" in 1998) and old intermission reels until it closed in 2004.
I just want to go to a drive in again! I'm 63 and our parents would put us in PJs so if we fell asleep they could just haul us out of the car and dump us in bed! Other kids wore PJs to.
Born in 1966 here and the last 2 movies I saw as a kid in my old hometown of Perth Amboy NJ at the old Drive-In were "King Kong" in 1976 and "Grease" in 1978. Thought it would be forever. Who knew?
Oh, wow. Back in the day. What a heart tug. Thank you. So many family drive in movies! We even had 4th of July shows there. Meeting new kids on the playground out front before the shows was a blast. Good times. That and the camping, boating, fishing...sigh...
Well, Denice, when people talk about the good old days, your post is what they mean. I can just see you kids all snug and cozy in the back of the station wagon.🙂
Oh my gosh ! Talk about a blast from the past, thank you , so fun to watch. Drive In as a kid in our jam jams , playing at the little play area until the movie started , laying in the back of our station wagon with our sleeping bags. Big smile remembering.
Oh geez, movie tickets that cost a few dollars, food at the theater like burgers, pepperoni pizza, corn dogs, ice cream bars, hot cocoa, fries, hot dogs, and of course hot buttered popcorn, soda and candy. Makes you wonder if they also serve cotton candy, sausages, cracker jacks, peanuts, red ropes licorice, root beer floats, chocolate malt drinks, fried chicken, frozen yogurt, peanut brittle, blt burgers, fish sticks, chicken nuggets, chocolate pudding, pies, chocolate chip cookies, doughnuts, cupcakes, fudge, etc. as well. SERIOUSLY appetizing movie theater food…. 😁😁😁😁👍👍
Great memories of going to the San Pedro drive in growing up. Would get together with my friends family packed in their station wagon. Would always look forward to the intermission.
I had to laugh at the size of that Buttercup Popcorn cup. You try and sell that in a theater today and the first question is, "Where's the rest of it?" But this is honestly fascinating to me. I was born in the 80s and only ever went to one drive-in movie when I was 5. I'm so glad for the modern internet keeping the memories of these older times alive.
All of these look familiar to me. I was born in 1955. My family went to drive in movies about two times per month in the summer in the 60s. I remember the mosquito repellant coils you burned on the dashboard.
@@margaretbriefs7347 Nope, I had strange tastes as a kid (drove my Mom crazy) and I still do as an almost old lady:) I've lived in a lot of states and countries, I always would taste the local foods and learned to cook the ones I liked.
I took my 3 daughters to the "drive in" movie to see Grease. It was shortly after that the last drive in closed in my area. It was such fun. You could load the car with pillows and blankets when needed. Couldn't believe they were closing because business was good. Those were the days my friends!
The switch from film reels to digital was way too expensive for some outdoor cinemas and that is why many of them closed down. But there is a growing movement to reopen some drive-in theaters and down south, opening new ones. I think the COVID-19 situation prompted the need to have the drive-ins remain open.
That mention at the end of free admission DividenTickets is quite a contrast to theaters now. Between that and green stamps, life must of felt so much easier.
So many memories. My father would never, ever allow drinks or food in his car so if we want to the drive-in we had to go in my mom’s Buick Riviera. This was terrible as her car had only two doors, so if you wanted to go to the restroom or snack bar, getting out of the back seat was drama. And, seeing the screen from her back seat was definitely difficult. I remember too the metal speaker you used to listen to the movie often had poor sound quality. Still, an exciting double feature. Blankets, spilled popcorn and fountain Coke. It was an adventure!
You broke my nostalgia button, and I'm not quite old enough to remember most of these. Going to the drive-in was the best. They should play these intermission bumpers at the theaters again. Check out the music video for "And We Danced" by The Hooters for another shot of nostalgia about drive-ins.
My first drive-in was December 1972, the Poseidon Adventure in north Hollywood or maybe Van Nuys. I was 7. We moved north, had family in Sacramento, and there was a drive-in with 6 screens right next to the freeway. I don't think they would show a rated R movie on any screens that drivers can see from the freeway, they might see a boob and crash.
Back in the 1950s, my family went to a drive-in theater. My brother and I said we were thirsty, so my parents gave us money to to to the snack bar. When we came back with ice cream (sandwiches or cones, I don't remember), my father got so angry he drove us out of the theater.
"You boys wouldn't happen to know who blew up the men's room crapper with a ¼ stick of dynamite and helped themselves to the contents of the snack bar in the confusion?"
It's interesting to see that they had to sell people on the idea of corn dogs. It's such a ubiquitous snack now, but I'm sure it must have seemed weird back then.
I thought the same thing. I was never a big fan of the corn dog. My Grandma would take me to the Pike in Long Beach Ca. and always buy me a corn dog like it was such a nifty treat. Now I understand why.
@@uncle_spanky No, the hot dog is dipped in cornbread batter and then fried. While there is some question about the origin many of us believe they were introduced at the Cozy Dog Drive-In in Springfield IL, along Route 66.
Us kids would play on the playground until the movie started again. Our parents would tell us to, "slow down and walk through the cars so we would not clothesline ourselves on the speaker wires mounted in the viewers' cars.
I use the FM radio for that indoor theater surround sound cranked up with the windows rolled up. Why would anyone steal one of those tinny Simplex speakers anyway? A fraternity initiation maybe? If you should accidentally pull the speaker loose, just take it with you! 😆 Just kidding!
Ah, yes, I remember it well...at the Drive-in we went on the kiddie rides in our feety pj's...then, as determined as my brother and I were to watch the whole movie, invariably we'd fall asleep 20 min in...next thing we knew, Dad was carrying us into the house.
Almost every 3rd weekend my Dad n Mom my sister and me..would pack in our Impala wagon and go to the Missison Drive Inn Just down Indian Hiil Blvd. In pomona ca. Great Times..
Ledgewood Drive-in Ledgewood, NJ at some point the intermission film was touting the available refreshments, “Enjoy some ice cold...PIzza, the way you like it”. Apparently the film had been spliced and was that way for many years.
5:47 - This was a regular at the Star Light Drive-in in Fairmont, West Virginia (actually Pleasant Valley) during the 1970s and probably a decade before and after.
It's a shame theater snacks are so damn expensive these days. I remember I took my nephew to the movies once for his birthday,I spent close to $50 on just a few snacks alone
They’re near-extortionist prices, seriously! There’s a movie theater where a friend of mine lives, and tickets for a movie are NOT expensive; they’re very cheap. My PROBLEM is how much the snacks & drinks are! No wonder people make sandwiches & stuff them in coats & purses, because the prices for snacks rob you!
Fortunately I live near a working drive in. Dave still shows all these classic intermission commercials.
Yeah, but do they still have the delicious hot dogs? If so, please tell me so I can get some.
My folks had a huge station wagon. Mom made the back down into a huge bed for we 4 kids. She made popcorn and other goodies at home that we brought with us. So much fun! I miss my parents so much. We may not have had much but we made up for it with love and togetherness.
Sounds like an idyllic childhood. A good family means SO much! I was born in 1953 and it was about the same for us.
Every car is electric now.
My family also had the old Rambler station wagon and we would also make up the back as a bed. We packed sandwiches and snacks and bought our sodas at the drive-iin counter. We would get there while it was still light on those Friday and Saturday Summer nights, and play on the swings that were in the grassy areas near the huge screen, until it was dusk and ready to watch the movie(s), as there were almost always double features. Oh, how I miss the 60's, my wonderful parents and those wonderfully innocent times!
Awwww.
Denice I have 3 siblings too, we did the same thing and also had a big ole tank of a station wagon . I have a sister named Denise 😊.
For anyone (myself included) who remembers going to the drive-in movie in the 50s, 60s, or even the 70s, this video is pure gold.
Don’t forget about your friends in the trunk!!
Cheech & Chong.
LISTEN TO "DRIVE-IN" BY THE BEACH BOYS 👍
@@spark20 "My eyes are burning!"
@Zeke on Storm peak Hiding in the trunk, we would sneak into the Miracle Mile Drive-In on Glenn, the Prince Drive-In on Prince Road, and the Tucson 4 Drive-In at Grant and I-10 in Tucson Arizona during the Summer of 1972. By Summer of 1973, we would ride our bicycles to the drive-in with small packs and aluminum lawn chairs strapped to our backs. We'd lock our bikes up nearby. Then we would either climb over or under the fence, depending on specifics. We would set up our chairs close enough to a family who had, as was not uncommon at the time due to Summer heat, gotten out of their car to sit on lawn chairs. Somehow, by Summer of 1974, we had aged out of that extremely fun and memorable behavior.
You did that too?
6:04 this was in Grease playing in the background when Danny Zuko sang “Sandy” !!!! It’s so cool to see it in its entirety!
Yeah I seen it too
Yes caught it too Cool 😎
😎one of my number #1 fun movies
@maryvintage In this video it skipped the part where the hotdog jumped into the bun, because of sexual innuendo I guess. It showed it in Grease.
@@macroevolve yes I noticed that, I wonder if it was somehow edited in for the movie, or could have just not been in the video
Buttercup popcorn is so nutritious! 🤣
If you don't mind the copious amounts of fat, carbs or sodium. 🍿
My family went the drive in two or three times a month. Mom would make a bunch of popcorn and put it in two paper grocery bags, one for mom and dad in the front seat and one for the back seat for me and my sister. Sometimes we took dad's pick-up, parked backwards and used lawn chairs or laid down on blankets. Good times, simple times.
Same here! Always a double feature and when us kids got sleepy, we crashed in the back seat with pillows we brought a long. Sure miss those days.
My grandparents actually met at a drive in in 1963 ❤
I remember my family stopping at an A&W root beer stand and picking up a gallon glass jug of root beer and glass mugs to take to the drive-in. You then returned them on your next visit.
My parents couldn't understand why these were my favorite part of the drive-in program.
Love these. Our drive in closed in 2022. We were one of the last cities to have one. A great loss to the community.
Takes me back to the playground under the screen and running back to the car when the cartoons came on. Mom made popcorn at home and brought it in a grocery brown bag with butter stains coming through. We usually brought Shasta drinks and sandwiches. Dad would get out and clean the windows and hang the speaker on the window. We would settle in for a double feature. Usually my brother and I were asleep by the middle of the second. Good times.
Shasta, theres a blast from the past. Maybe they are still around but haven't seen them in our region for years.
When I was five and six years old, my family would go to the drive-in theater. My mom would dress me in my footed pajamas (I remember having a yellow and a red pair) and we would get there at dusk. There was a playground in sand in the front of the projection screen and I could play until the movie started (by myself back then!), then run back to the car, a 58 Plymouth with fins. I would have sand trapped in the feet until I went home and mom would take my pajamas off and shake them out.
Footsies. That's what I called them. Or bunny suit. Very safe and warm. Yep - those were good good times.
@@foobarmaximus3506 Good times indeed! When the bottoms got worn out or feet outgrew the footsie part, did your mom also cut them off? And you no longer had cozy safe feet. I remember that happening a couple of times!
Yes, many memories such as this.
As a 4/5 year old in 1964 I remember being so excited in the back of our station wagon, only to wake up on the way home, very mad and sulking that I'd fell asleep.lol
I don't have to wish for those days,"thank God!" We still have four drive-ins near me. And every one still play most off these intermission. And to top it off I always drive my 62 Plymouth to add to the full affect. But I still have to bring my own drive- in speaker for the look! For most drive-ins broadcast on the airwaves. The last time I was at the drive-in was believe it or not was to watch the intermissions, the movies were junk! The drive-in was having a marathon of intermissions.
how many went looking for Mays Dairy queen at 930 Ogden Avenue.... gotta love street view...
This played EVERY night at our local Drive-In .... torn down now & a McDonalds now stands there.
I Miss everything about this😢. Wish we could go back sometimes
Me too...😭
6:27 - That's the one that plays in the background in "Grease" during the "Sandy" number!
Yeah i remember that xD .
Kids today don't know what their missing! Anyone agree? What great times this brings up!!!
Those day's have gone the way of good manners. & good movies.
@@gregoryhagen8801 Gregory you are so right!!!
What _they're_ missing.
@@coloradostrong who would you be?
@@gregoryhagen8801 it's hard to show good manners when you're never shown respect
Growing up in southern California drive-ins were one of the joys of summer - or just about any time of the year.
There was one drive-in my ex and friends would go to quite a bit. We all had trucks or vans - We'd back in the back of the lot, backwards. Then set up beach chairs in the truck beds. We usually brought big paper shopping bags of our own popcorn - and coolers with our own drinks, too. Still - I would always go to the snack shack at intermission and buy a small box of ice cream 'bon bons' --- Small scoops of ice cream dipped in a hard chocolate shell.
There was a playground at the base of the big screen with a small wading pool for kids and their parents.
Those were good times --- We'd get two movies with a long intermission full of cartoons and coming attractions.
The good old days.
My parents always packed snacks when we went to the drive in! The concession stand was expensive. We only went there to use the restroom.
I think we all still do the same today lol.
Believe this - The typical outdoor cinema nowadays survives primarily by way of those snack bar concessions. You want to keep the drive-ins going, BUY something! 🍕🥓🍔🍟🍦🍿
Last time I went to a drive in, the concession snacks prices were through the roof!
this was the Downer's Grove IL drive in theater, one of the best Drive In movie theaters in the Chicago Land area. The Dairy Queen location gave it away. The Dairy Queen there still exists.
I remember as a kid in the 70’s going to the drive for $1 carload nights. That’s when we got McDonald’s or Jack n the box as well as mom bringing homemade popcorn for second feature. We had a local drive here that only closed about 4 yrs ago, so it was nice to have my kid’s experience this too. They loved going in their pjs with friends and relaxing.
Remember going to drive-in movies a couple of times as a kid.
It’s crazy. I’m a millenial but I feel like I know this era. Maybe partially from my parents maybe from my deep dive into the past or even the fact that when I was a kid, my family went to a few drive-in theaters ourselves & those are just faint memories now.
It’s even crazier though that as I grew up, we still used corded phones & eventually early cellphones & now we have smartphones & laptops we take for granted. Pluto was still a planet & thought of as a cold gray world, now it’s classified as a dwarf & we know it’s actually a beautiful & complex world.
When I started school, we still used chalkboards & overhead projecters. By the time we graduated, I had a school-issued iPad & used a MacBook in class as well as used SmartBoards.
So many changes in such a short time..
I don’t know how I got this but I LOVE IT!🥰
Omg ! Such wonderful memories..and, yes, there was always that big push for the snack bar 😁
You had to time it right so you didn't tear through it before the movie began or miss the movie. No matter how well you planned, there was always the family that sent the one child who couldn't remember it all or carry it or the guy who wanted to ask questions. We were all happy, though, when they came back carrying everything -- except your candy bar.
Hahaha!!! When I was young, I was in the trunk a few times, taken by my aunt and my 2 cousins. My cousins weren't in the trunk. Drive-ins were great fun! I loved them.
the last time i've been to a drive in was back in 1984 or 85. i was 13 at the time. i miss them days.
Man I loved the drive-in, too! Where I live in California there are a few left, but it sure isn't what it used to be!
In the 1960s it was THE place to go on Saturday night.
These are so charming
This video made my mouth water! I could taste the buttered popcorn and hot dogs.
When snacks used to be guilt free and taste a lot better
Countdown?? Ahh geewhezz I'm here for the snacks at the concession stand.
Those hot dogs were delicious! I don't care what they made them from. I would pay big money for one of those right now. Not kidding!
I can't believe they sang that the popcorn was "nutritious"!
@@dogman15 It does provide fiber🍿😉
These are the classic nostalgia - Dozens of little animated clips from different decades all cobbled together, many of them with scratches on the film, clipped audio and very distinct music and animation styles all mashed together to make intermission reels. You might watch an intermission reel and it might have shorts from 3 different decades along with local slides advertising churches or local businesses.
i made a few "Custom" intermissions myself for a Video project back in high school and this reminds me of the days my grandpa took me to the double feature at the drive-in back in my elementary school days (he made sure i didn't fall asleep during the movies, he let me have a nap during the intermission and the drive back home)
My goodness, I actually remember some of these. I just turned 51. I’m getting old… 😰. I really do miss the drive in motor movies.
This is brilliant! The Tony’s pizza advert is a bit unsettling though! 😂 Great compilation.
I have a few memory's of going to the drive in theater ; the oldest was my mom & dad taking my brother & me , we would were our pajamas there so we would be ready for bed when we got home . This particular night I had my pink nighty & satin pink robe on .. my brother & I went to the snack stand & got delicious hot dogs & sparkling soda's . I fell asleep on the drive home & my dad picked me up , carried me in the house & tucked me in . I was only about four years old but I remember it like it was yesterday . I'd give anything to go back to my childhood for even one day 🌉.!
What a beautiful memory!
@@sirenainthemoonlight🌛💗 thank you so much for that comment 😌 it made me very happy 🌅
Oh the memories these bring back. We used to have a small drive-in that showed old movies (the original "Jaws" in 1998) and old intermission reels until it closed in 2004.
I just want to go to a drive in again! I'm 63 and our parents would put us in PJs so if we fell asleep they could just haul us out of the car and dump us in bed! Other kids wore PJs to.
Yep!! Same here...
Miss those days.
Born in 1966 here and the last 2 movies I saw as a kid in my old hometown of Perth Amboy NJ at the old Drive-In were "King Kong" in 1976 and "Grease" in 1978. Thought it would be forever. Who knew?
Oh, wow. Back in the day. What a heart tug. Thank you. So many family drive in movies! We even had 4th of July shows there. Meeting new kids on the playground out front before the shows was a blast. Good times. That and the camping, boating, fishing...sigh...
Well, Denice, when people talk about the good old days, your post is what they mean. I can just see you kids all snug and cozy in the back of the station wagon.🙂
Oh my gosh ! Talk about a blast from the past, thank you , so fun to watch. Drive In as a kid in our jam jams , playing at the little play area until the movie started , laying in the back of our station wagon with our sleeping bags. Big smile remembering.
Please God, let me find one of those delicious Hot Dogs again before I die. Man. I miss that food!
All of a sudden I'm a kid again. TYVM
Oh geez, movie tickets that cost a few dollars, food at the theater like burgers, pepperoni pizza, corn dogs, ice cream bars, hot cocoa, fries, hot dogs, and of course hot buttered popcorn, soda and candy. Makes you wonder if they also serve cotton candy, sausages, cracker jacks, peanuts, red ropes licorice, root beer floats, chocolate malt drinks, fried chicken, frozen yogurt, peanut brittle, blt burgers, fish sticks, chicken nuggets, chocolate pudding, pies, chocolate chip cookies, doughnuts, cupcakes, fudge, etc. as well. SERIOUSLY appetizing movie theater food…. 😁😁😁😁👍👍
Great memories of going to the San Pedro drive in growing up. Would get together with my friends family packed in their station wagon. Would always look forward to the intermission.
I had to laugh at the size of that Buttercup Popcorn cup. You try and sell that in a theater today and the first question is, "Where's the rest of it?"
But this is honestly fascinating to me. I was born in the 80s and only ever went to one drive-in movie when I was 5. I'm so glad for the modern internet keeping the memories of these older times alive.
I loved the "Spotty" short. (We did not have a spotlight though. It was still fun to watch.)
I love particularly this one of Butter Cup Popcorn 👌😀
Served in a king-sized cup!
Thank you for sharing this!
The Hot Dog 🌭 and Ice Cream Cartoon was featured in Grease
There is still a working drive in theater where I live now - Wichita, KS.
They recently closed the "Winter drive in " in Winterville, OH. It was a sad day 😞
You are so lucky.
All of these look familiar to me. I was born in 1955. My family went to drive in movies about two times per month in the summer in the 60s. I remember the mosquito repellant coils you burned on the dashboard.
What happened to mosquitos?
@@kyouhate9453 They went someplace which smelled better. I don' think it hurt them, unfortunately.
@@MrTruckerf Oh, okeydokey.
So no mosquitoes but poison fumes.
@@citrine65 Mosquito coils aren't poison. Not to humans, anyway.
See this is why I wish for a Time Machine to go back in time and check this out for myself
It was a fun era. People are so negative today by comparison.
Yes or to wake up tomorrow and it 1961 the carefree times if we compare them to these times
@@EricLehner Oh yes, a fun era, unless you were a person of color in that era before the civil rights movement :)
RUclips is our only time machine
Yes, then I can go to a Led Zeppelin concert. Great times!
Now I want buttered popcorn, a dill pickle and a root beer!!
Ewww - dill pickle and a ROOT BEER? Were you pregnant?
@@margaretbriefs7347 Nope, I had strange tastes as a kid (drove my Mom crazy) and I still do as an almost old lady:) I've lived in a lot of states and countries, I always would taste the local foods and learned to cook the ones I liked.
I took my 3 daughters to the "drive in" movie to see Grease. It was shortly after that the last drive in closed in my area. It was such fun. You could load the car with pillows and blankets when needed. Couldn't believe they were closing because business was good. Those were the days my friends!
The switch from film reels to digital was way too expensive for some outdoor cinemas and that is why many of them closed down. But there is a growing movement to reopen some drive-in theaters and down south, opening new ones. I think the COVID-19 situation prompted the need to have the drive-ins remain open.
I Googled the Dairy Queen. It's in Downers Grove, IL.
Simpler times. Better times in my opinion.
That mention at the end of free admission DividenTickets is quite a contrast to theaters now. Between that and green stamps, life must of felt so much easier.
Missing : Kiddieland: and the dancing hotdogs animation.
So many memories. My father would never, ever allow drinks or food in his car so if we want to the drive-in we had to go in my mom’s Buick Riviera. This was terrible as her car had only two doors, so if you wanted to go to the restroom or snack bar, getting out of the back seat was drama. And, seeing the screen from her back seat was definitely difficult. I remember too the metal speaker you used to listen to the movie often had poor sound quality. Still, an exciting double feature. Blankets, spilled popcorn and fountain Coke. It was an adventure!
6:45
Then: That'll be $1.00
Now: That'll be $62.78
You broke my nostalgia button, and I'm not quite old enough to remember most of these. Going to the drive-in was the best. They should play these intermission bumpers at the theaters again.
Check out the music video for "And We Danced" by The Hooters for another shot of nostalgia about drive-ins.
We didn't call them "bumpers", and no one else did either. They were commercial interruptions, nothing more.
My parents would let us lay on the hood of our station wagon to watch the movie at the drive-in. We would usually fall asleep before the second movie.
For anyone that's wondering, this clip seems to be from a drive-in in Tomahawk, Wisconsin.
I never seen these before. The one I remember was. The professor with the goodies machine. And the Martian with the flying saucer.
I saw the Terminator in one of the last drive-ins in NJ. It was one of the last movies shown before closing for good.
Going to see the latest Godzilla film! Awesome memories! Thankyou!
Fanta soda had the coolest bottles ever, better than coke bottles, they had these ribbed shape. Wow, I forgot about those in the 60's.
My first drive-in was December 1972, the Poseidon Adventure in north Hollywood or maybe Van Nuys. I was 7. We moved north, had family in Sacramento, and there was a drive-in with 6 screens right next to the freeway. I don't think they would show a rated R movie on any screens that drivers can see from the freeway, they might see a boob and crash.
Love it, got the so called "Old World Blues" big time haha.
Back in the 1950s, my family went to a drive-in theater. My brother and I said we were thirsty, so my parents gave us money to to to the snack bar. When we came back with ice cream (sandwiches or cones, I don't remember), my father got so angry he drove us out of the theater.
Oy…. 😬😬😬😩😩
They still play these at my local drive in
I can't believe you actually took out the hotdogs jumping into the bun. It's a vintage ad
"You boys wouldn't happen to know who blew up the men's room crapper with a ¼ stick of dynamite and helped themselves to the contents of the snack bar in the confusion?"
It's interesting to see that they had to sell people on the idea of corn dogs. It's such a ubiquitous snack now, but I'm sure it must have seemed weird back then.
It's a hotdog and a bun... on a stick? 🤔
I thought the same thing.
I was never a big fan of the corn dog.
My Grandma would take me to the Pike in Long Beach Ca. and always buy me a corn dog like it was such a nifty treat. Now I understand why.
@@uncle_spanky No, the hot dog is dipped in cornbread batter and then fried. While there is some question about the origin many of us believe they were introduced at the Cozy Dog Drive-In in Springfield IL, along Route 66.
Us kids would play on the playground until the movie started again. Our parents would tell us to, "slow down and walk through the cars so we would not clothesline ourselves on the speaker wires mounted in the viewers' cars.
And replace the speaker and if you break one take it to the concession stand.
I use the FM radio for that indoor theater surround sound cranked up with the windows rolled up. Why would anyone steal one of those tinny Simplex speakers anyway? A fraternity initiation maybe? If you should accidentally pull the speaker loose, just take it with you! 😆 Just kidding!
Ah, yes, I remember it well...at the Drive-in we went on the kiddie rides in our feety pj's...then, as determined as my brother and I were to watch the whole movie, invariably we'd fall asleep 20 min in...next thing we knew, Dad was carrying us into the house.
Those were the good old days.
Almost every 3rd weekend my Dad n Mom my sister and me..would pack in our Impala wagon and go to the Missison Drive Inn Just down Indian Hiil Blvd. In pomona ca. Great Times..
I remember Nelson's Liquor Mart. I bought liquor infused candy there and got dividend tickets too.
Ledgewood Drive-in Ledgewood, NJ at some point the intermission film was touting the available refreshments, “Enjoy some ice cold...PIzza, the way you like it”. Apparently the film had been spliced and was that way for many years.
3:35 I want a Pepsi NOW!!!
The old style syrup kind
The funny thing is that they use to use them for decades, so something from the 50s might be used in the 70s.
At the drive in you get 2 movies for the price of one.
5:47 - This was a regular at the Star Light Drive-in in Fairmont, West Virginia (actually Pleasant Valley) during the 1970s and probably a decade before and after.
Imagine having to explain what a corn dog was.
I had to Google It but I'm not from the US
Thanks for sharing this gem 💎
Our drive in is now all house's.we used to bring the kids & there was even a play ground.
What is the date of this? Looks like around 1964-1966.
The very old film from ads, but modern years it become like history for Hollywood museum.
Did they really say the popcorn was nutritious? Too funny.
I remember going to see “Private Benjamin” with my girlfriend Teresa.
To this day I couldn’t tell you what that movie was about…
It's a shame theater snacks are so damn expensive these days. I remember I took my nephew to the movies once for his birthday,I spent close to $50 on just a few snacks alone
They’re near-extortionist prices, seriously! There’s a movie theater where a friend of mine lives, and tickets for a movie are NOT expensive; they’re very cheap. My PROBLEM is how much the snacks & drinks are! No wonder people make sandwiches & stuff them in coats & purses, because the prices for snacks rob you!
Corn Dogs MMMMM Hot dogs with all the freshness sealed in LOL to keep all of that rat/racoon/road kill fresh.
LOL! In an old movie "The Great Outdoors", mama raccoon tells her kids what hot dogs are made of - lips and a***oles!