I was 13 when Batman 89 came out. Saw it at the drive in. It was great. We still have a drive in that runs here in southern Ohio. Last movie I saw there was Cars 2 with my kids.
@@RetroDaze Pretty sure there’s one still open around Wilmington somewhere. I’m about 40 minutes north of Cincinnati. It’s been a while since I’ve been there but yeah last time I was there was for that Cars movie with the kids. Or maybe it was Dayton. It’s been a while since
Thank you just brought back a good memory back in the 80's laying in the back of a Ford family wagon pinto with the hatch back up My sister and I being in at onesies falling asleep just right after the second movie started 😁
That's great! We love nothing more than sparking memories that maybe had started to gather a little dust. Ahh... the Pinto. What a perfect "drive-in" car. 😆
I still experience my local Drive-in Theater at least 4× a year. The best part was that the first movie would replay after the second movie, allowing you to stay until 4am!
I didn't go too much to the drive-in as a kid but one opened up just after the pandemic in an old used car lot in the center of town. They show 2nd run films as well as classics. It's a good time with the Mrs. Also, kudos to Tony the writer. The time-travel stories are really fun
@@ctbinary42 Man, it’s nice to hear a story about a drive-in OPENING for once! That is uplifting. Our writer is a storyteller by trade, so he BETTER be good at it! 😆 What he lacks in research skills (ongoing joke) he makes up for in making up stuff. 😉
As a 1982 baby, I only went to a drive in theater once, and that was to see "Masters of the Universe". I was so young, all I remember from that night was my mom putting the speaker in the car and me falling asleep in the back seat. 😂 I had to re-watch the movie a couple years later on VHS to actually grasp what was going on.
I got the impression that was pretty common. I seem to remember a PSA running at my local drive-in saying something to the effect of, "If you accidentally drive off with the speaker, please return it to the attendant on the way out - no charge for accidents!" I'm sure it was cheaper for them to attach a new wire than buy a new speaker because attendees were afraid to admit their blunder. 😉
The very first movie I ever remember seeing (I was 5) was The Black Stallion. My cousin took me to a drive-in at the edge of the little town I lived in with his girlfriend. I sat in the back seat of his green Chevy Nova and could barely see anything, but it was the COOLEST thing ever.
Oh man, what an awesome memory to have! Being able to recall all those details and keep that with you… that’s good stuff. Sure makes The Black Stallion a far more memorable movie than it otherwise would have been. 😆
In the 70's we went to see many movies at the drive in theater in Longview, TX. One of them was called The Black Hole at the tail end of the decade. I liked for my dad to roll down the window and let me sit in the window so I could see all of the screens at once. Sometimes I would see something I shouldn't! LOL
😆 So you were THAT kid! Ha! That’s awesome though. Thank you for sharing that with us Jeff. Appreciate you and all our regular viewers! Oh, and The Black Hole is AWESOME! But seriously… was Reinhardt supposed to be in Hell at the end? That’s some ‘Event Horizon’ levels of messed up.
Here in Indiana we have 20 drive thru theaters left. There is one 30 minutes from me here in Northern Indiana in Wabash. I went to see the original Twister a few months ago on throwback Thursday with my little nephew.
@@traciayala5044 While we wish there were more drive-ins than that, it’s nice to know that some still exist to enjoy out your way.
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Yeaaaah!!! Ty for the new vid!! parents took us to see animal house, love at first bite, star wars, coal miner's daughter only ones I def remember AC/DC big balls playing on the speaker boxes great memories!! Loving the KOTH hat too!!
Now that is a very diverse selection of movies to see at the drive-in! 😆 As for the hat… the funniest part is that Producer Tony owns a propane company. 😂
If you have a back yard, buy a digital projector and either a big screen (we bought an inflatable one at Sam's Club) or hang a white flat bedsheet across your house. You'll have your own private drive in! No back yard? Try it in your house, either with the bedsheet or a blank wall. Either way, you get to pick the movies, the start times, the snacks, and when you want to have intermission!
@@AnthonyJRapino I had the readily available Freddy mask back in the day (it makes an appearance in Wedding Singer movie) with the foam material hat. I let a friend borrow it in 1998 or so, but it ended up getting mold growing in it because it was in his parents’ basement. It just had to be pitched 😫🪦
@@RetroDaze Yeah the hat was made of foam (and was black, so it probably would’ve hidden the mold 😂), but the mask was latex and the inside of it was speckled with mold, so there was no way I was going to ever put it on again. There was no saving it, I don’t think 😭
I've never been to a drive-in but I think a similar experience would be, "Movies in the Park." Sure, you're not in your car, but it is an outdoor, community experience. I was at one here in my hometown of Chicago back in 2001. They were showing "Maltese Falcon" at a park right next to Grant Park on the lakefront. It was cool to not only see the movie outdoors, but have it set against the Chicago skyline. They still do Movies in the Park in the summertime here in Chicago, though not at the place where I saw "Maltese Falcon."
I have continued my visits to my local Drive-in Theater since my first experience in 1982? when my parents took my sister and I to see the "Popie" movie. Later un age I enjoyed the local "Vally 6" to enjoy "Jurassic Park" on its opening night as I just graduated from High School!
We had two drive in's in our town. I never saw a movie at either one but one of them had a huge flea market that we went to a lot. Got some cool toys there as a kid (one example being a Micronauts Hornetroid) and then as an "adult", I um, still got some cool toys there! There was a cool Star Wars dealer there every Saturday! They are sadly both gone now and they are actually building townhouses on the one that had the flea market. Wish I still had that Hornetroid but I do at least still have the Star Wars figures!
@@TeamRiptide17 Ahh man. It’s depressing how many stories of drive-ins now gone there are. Nonetheless, thank you for sharing those memories with us. Perhaps one day you can pick up a Micronauts Hornetroid and let it serve as a reminder of good times.
The drive-in theatre close to my home (that we went to several times in the 1960s) started showing X-rated movies in the 1970s before it was torn down. The screen was too far from the road for us to be able to see what exactly was happening on the screen, but we liked to try and laugh about it. There are now apartments and a Walmart built on the land. It was really too hot to go often to that theatre since I live in Texas.
I would be looking online to see where one is, and even if it's a bit of a drive, then do it at least once for a movie you really want to see, as the experience is total worth it. Just make sure to take a good portable radio with plenty of battery power, and extra snacks for the cartrip.
@@RetroDaze No not really...near as I can tell, what people just started doing form the 90s onwards was have one or two friends pay to get in...then open the theater door for their friends waiting on the outside of hteb uilding. Worked everytime :P
Ah man I remember going to my local drive in a lot of days during the summers. Where I live summers can get a bit chilly at night. So there was nothing like sitting under a blanket in the back of a truck or SUV and watching some movies outside while eating some drive in foods while having the night breeze hit you gently. It was such a great time!
I never went to the drive-in as a child. The first time I ever went was years ago in Tucson AZ. I wish the local drive-in had a better selection of moves. Unfortunately, the majority is kids movies. Wish we could all jump in the time machine for real.
The last drive in movie i seen was Gone iIn 60 Seconds. Then the outside theater closed. People were driving 100MPH IN A 45 MPH. It was a stone driveway and EVERYONE WAS DOING DONUTS!👍🏻🇺🇲
Ahh man. So many great drive-ins are gone. It’s a case of not knowing what we have until it’s gone. Really wish our local one still existed. Thanks once again ZMan! Appreciate you!
If you have a VR headset, you can sort of approximate seeing drive in movies. That's pretty neat. And with tons of old school B movies available on RUclips for free, you can pick any two you want to make your own double feature.
There's still a Drive-in Movie theater in my area (The Big MO in Monetta, SC), and it's a bit of a drive at about an hour, but my family tires to go at least once a year for the experience as they almost always to do a double feature on each of the 3 screens they have, & the prices are too bad compared to the normal theaters. So as long as weather holds out this year I'm grabbing my boom box, loading up the Highlander, taking the family to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and buying some foot long chili dogs at the concession stand. 👍
Like i said over there at "Rhetty for Historys" channel Im the tail end of Gen X, born 1980 and had 2 older brothers. So i seemed to lean toward alittle older generation and less millennial. Which in retrospect is an odd place to have been raised with a strange perspective..😮 We have a Drive in Oregon Ohio right outside of Toledo called the Sundance kid, its been there in operation since the 1950s. And still in operation, kids today actually might be lucky for it. 😂❤ cheers
Ah, I was also born in 1980 (though I was the eldest), but I totally understand existing in this weird cusp generation where we can relate to either end. I tend to be a good mixture of the two, I think. Thanks for watching!
We’re happy to have you as Gen X OR Millennial! As a fellow Buckeye (Producer Tony) I am very happy that some drive-ins are still kicking in our state. All of the ones that were closest to me are now gone. 😔
Thanks for the interesting throwbacks. I personally love it. My 17 year old son....yea. 17 year old son these days. He called me a boomer. But he says we are stupider than his Gen z mob 🤣 haha jokes on him. Lol
I've only been to a drive-in movie theater once, and it was either in the late 90s or early 2000s. I can't remember which. I also can't remember which movie we watched while we were there. I do remember eating burnt popcorn there, though. The closest drive-in theater in Florida near me is the one up in Ruskin, and that's a long ways off from St Pete. I've been wanting to go there for the longest time, but my dad kept saying it's too far away to drive. Maybe someday we'll go back there. Also, since my mom, dad and I are having a yard sale today, it would be cool if you did a video on nostalgic yard and garage sale memories from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
I need to buy a wristwatch for the first time since 2020, and they didn't have a single non-smart watch in Target or Walgreen's. (I'll try Walmar tomorrow,) Anyways, when I asked a Target worker where the non-Smart watches were, he seemed really confused at the idea, so I explained it was something that told you the time without the extra bells and whistles, something only old guys like me wear. He said, "I like to refer to it as retro rather than old." That got a big laugh from me. Keep it up.
Loved the drive-in! The last one in my hometown recently shut down after 66 years. RIP Wallis Mainline 1956-2022. Fave bit: every time there waa a sex scene, ppl tooted their horns and flashes their high-beams, lighting up the big screen. Always cracked me up. Ditto hiding in the boot to sneak in for free and seeing someone drive off with the speaker still attached to the window 😂
Oh gosh!!! All of these tidbits of drive-in experiences would have been fun additions to our little journey here! Sad that your drive-in is now gone though. That bites.
@@RetroDaze They really seem to be an American - Australian thing. So many little quirks. Like "adult content" - my local drive-in showed soft core porn on Saturday nights, lol. Always thought it made the drive-in cops a bit hypocritical. Knocking on windows and shining torches on amorous couples in the back seat, haha
I finally tried Crunch Tators this past November or December. You could get them at Dollar General, but they only had the original flavor when I went, which was a disappointment. I wanted to try the Mesquite ones which I first noticed in Home Alone. They were good for plain chips, but they’re just plain.
The funny thing is the only movie I ever saw in a drive-in was in Portland, Oregon during the summer of 1982, where I saw Blade Runner for the first time. Which is hilarious, because if there is one movie you really shouldn't see in a drive-in, it would be Blader Runner, as the visuals and sounds don't get the full justice they deserve. Despite this, I knew that movie was really special even at twelve years old...
Oh no! Well, in the end it ended up being a fond memory, and then later on you got to enjoy the full visual experience on home video. 😆 And yes! That film’s visuals STILL hold up! It’s crazy.
@@RetroDaze I saw it later in a proper theater that summer, and in 1992 saw it in Santa Monica with my pal Jeff Weir (who is still with EA and was the original art director for the Sims 4.) Fun times.
Bonus points for using a lot of footage also used by BrutalMoose in his stream openings. Hope you don't mind me posting for a third time on this video, but I have to give a BrutalMoose shoutout.
I was 13 when Batman 89 came out. Saw it at the drive in. It was great. We still have a drive in that runs here in southern Ohio. Last movie I saw there was Cars 2 with my kids.
@@nowhereman4217 Really? Where in southern Ohio? I’m in Southeastern Ohio (Producer Tony).
@@RetroDaze Pretty sure there’s one still open around Wilmington somewhere. I’m about 40 minutes north of Cincinnati. It’s been a while since I’ve been there but yeah last time I was there was for that Cars movie with the kids. Or maybe it was Dayton. It’s been a while since
Nice! Was hoping that if it was in the southwestern part that it was close to King's Island since we go there a good amount.
There’s two working drive ins within 30 min of me ❤ I grew up going to the drive in and still can. I love it.
That’s so awesome! Need to move one of those into my (Producer Tony) neck of the woods!
Thank you just brought back a good memory back in the 80's laying in the back of a Ford family wagon pinto with the hatch back up My sister and I being in at onesies falling asleep just right after the second movie started 😁
That's great! We love nothing more than sparking memories that maybe had started to gather a little dust. Ahh... the Pinto. What a perfect "drive-in" car. 😆
I still experience my local Drive-in Theater at least 4× a year.
The best part was that the first movie would replay after the second movie, allowing you to stay until 4am!
That’s awesome! You could make a whole night out if it.
I didn't go too much to the drive-in as a kid but one opened up just after the pandemic in an old used car lot in the center of town. They show 2nd run films as well as classics. It's a good time with the Mrs. Also, kudos to Tony the writer. The time-travel stories are really fun
@@ctbinary42 Man, it’s nice to hear a story about a drive-in OPENING for once! That is uplifting.
Our writer is a storyteller by trade, so he BETTER be good at it! 😆 What he lacks in research skills (ongoing joke) he makes up for in making up stuff. 😉
As a 1982 baby, I only went to a drive in theater once, and that was to see "Masters of the Universe". I was so young, all I remember from that night was my mom putting the speaker in the car and me falling asleep in the back seat. 😂 I had to re-watch the movie a couple years later on VHS to actually grasp what was going on.
@@PatrickRockwell24 Well, you didn’t miss much. 😆
As a teenager. I accidentally drove off with the speaker still in my window 🫣
It was around 1996. I still have the metal (now unattached) speaker 😅
I got the impression that was pretty common. I seem to remember a PSA running at my local drive-in saying something to the effect of, "If you accidentally drive off with the speaker, please return it to the attendant on the way out - no charge for accidents!"
I'm sure it was cheaper for them to attach a new wire than buy a new speaker because attendees were afraid to admit their blunder. 😉
Oh gosh!!! You were THAT guy! 😆 Just as long as you didn’t also drive off with the gasoline pump handle too.
@@RetroDaze 😅
Born in 1968 but never made it to a drive in … yet.
But this was lot of fun anyway as it still captures a very familiar period of life for me
So glad this still managed to spark some nostalgia for that special time Ted.
Got so much nostalgic out of this! Ill never forget seeing Titanic at a drive in back when it came out.
What a great memory to have. Thanks for sharing that Koba!
Been many many times to drive ins in L.A. county and northeast Alabama. Loved them so much.
@@ThomasGidley-kv2uj That’s awesome Thomas! Any trips there that stand out to you?
@@RetroDaze not really because it was always a comfortable situation. Nothing like it
We still have drive ins where I love in upstate NY. I have been going every summer since I was a kid in the 80s
That's incredibly awesome! There are so few left anymore. To have uninterrupted access to a drive-in all these years is a big time bonus.
The very first movie I ever remember seeing (I was 5) was The Black Stallion. My cousin took me to a drive-in at the edge of the little town I lived in with his girlfriend. I sat in the back seat of his green Chevy Nova and could barely see anything, but it was the COOLEST thing ever.
Oh man, what an awesome memory to have! Being able to recall all those details and keep that with you… that’s good stuff. Sure makes The Black Stallion a far more memorable movie than it otherwise would have been. 😆
In the 70's we went to see many movies at the drive in theater in Longview, TX. One of them was called The Black Hole at the tail end of the decade. I liked for my dad to roll down the window and let me sit in the window so I could see all of the screens at once. Sometimes I would see something I shouldn't! LOL
😆 So you were THAT kid! Ha! That’s awesome though. Thank you for sharing that with us Jeff. Appreciate you and all our regular viewers! Oh, and The Black Hole is AWESOME! But seriously… was Reinhardt supposed to be in Hell at the end? That’s some ‘Event Horizon’ levels of messed up.
Our Drive-In in Vineland, NJ is still operating.
Fortunately the drive-in near me also sits on Route 66, so it's had a little easier time hanging on through the years.
That probably makes it as much a tourist stop as a drive-in. Definitely a help!
Here in Indiana we have 20 drive thru theaters left. There is one 30 minutes from me here in Northern Indiana in Wabash. I went to see the original Twister a few months ago on throwback Thursday with my little nephew.
@@traciayala5044 While we wish there were more drive-ins than that, it’s nice to know that some still exist to enjoy out your way.
Yeaaaah!!! Ty for the new vid!! parents took us to see animal house, love at first bite, star wars, coal miner's daughter only ones I def remember AC/DC big balls playing on the speaker boxes great memories!! Loving the KOTH hat too!!
Now that is a very diverse selection of movies to see at the drive-in! 😆 As for the hat… the funniest part is that Producer Tony owns a propane company. 😂
I can still remember waiting in a line for several hours to see star wars in a drive in
Really? That’s an awesome memory! What a film to see at the drive-in.
If you have a back yard, buy a digital projector and either a big screen (we bought an inflatable one at Sam's Club) or hang a white flat bedsheet across your house. You'll have your own private drive in!
No back yard? Try it in your house, either with the bedsheet or a blank wall. Either way, you get to pick the movies, the start times, the snacks, and when you want to have intermission!
@@droth1031 We actually did this for my daughter’s graduation party out by our pool! (Producer Tony)
🤣 Tony still rocking the Freddy mask
Just like in real life 🎃
@@AnthonyJRapino I had the readily available Freddy mask back in the day (it makes an appearance in Wedding Singer movie) with the foam material hat. I let a friend borrow it in 1998 or so, but it ended up getting mold growing in it because it was in his parents’ basement. It just had to be pitched 😫🪦
@@FamicomFanatic Ah, dang, that stinks. 😕 The one I have is from a yard sale a while back.
Basements are not kind to foam. 😆 You would think the deterioration would add to the Freddy effect. 👻
@@RetroDaze Yeah the hat was made of foam (and was black, so it probably would’ve hidden the mold 😂), but the mask was latex and the inside of it was speckled with mold, so there was no way I was going to ever put it on again. There was no saving it, I don’t think 😭
My mom took me to see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom at a drive in. When I was 8. Good times.
What an awesome movie to have witnessed at a drive-in! That would make the film that much more memorable!
There's a drive in about 3 miles from my home called the Holiday Drive In. It's open in even colder weather.
@@villain68 That’s great! So good to hear about all the drive-ins still in operation. It’s uplifting.
Also nothing beats seeing Jurassic Park as a kid at the drive in and feeling like a dinosaur might just walk by the screen
That would have been great to see at the drive-in!
I've never been to a drive-in but I think a similar experience would be, "Movies in the Park." Sure, you're not in your car, but it is an outdoor, community experience. I was at one here in my hometown of Chicago back in 2001. They were showing "Maltese Falcon" at a park right next to Grant Park on the lakefront. It was cool to not only see the movie outdoors, but have it set against the Chicago skyline. They still do Movies in the Park in the summertime here in Chicago, though not at the place where I saw "Maltese Falcon."
@@BrianRetro That’s a cool way to catch a movie. Kind of a neat idea.
I have continued my visits to my local Drive-in Theater since my first experience in 1982? when my parents took my sister and I to see the "Popie" movie.
Later un age I enjoyed the local "Vally 6" to enjoy "Jurassic Park" on its opening night as I just graduated from High School!
You saw Jurassic Park at the drive-in? Also, did you mean the Popeye movie was your first experience?
@RetroDaze Yes, Popie was my very first Drive-in experience.
Popeye?
My mother said in the late forties the drive in served beer. This was San Antonio. You honked your horn and they brought the beer to your car
That’s interesting. It’s crazy to think how much things have changed like this through the years.
We had two drive in's in our town. I never saw a movie at either one but one of them had a huge flea market that we went to a lot. Got some cool toys there as a kid (one example being a Micronauts Hornetroid) and then as an "adult", I um, still got some cool toys there! There was a cool Star Wars dealer there every Saturday! They are sadly both gone now and they are actually building townhouses on the one that had the flea market. Wish I still had that Hornetroid but I do at least still have the Star Wars figures!
@@TeamRiptide17 Ahh man. It’s depressing how many stories of drive-ins now gone there are. Nonetheless, thank you for sharing those memories with us. Perhaps one day you can pick up a Micronauts Hornetroid and let it serve as a reminder of good times.
The drive-in theatre close to my home (that we went to several times in the 1960s) started showing X-rated movies in the 1970s before it was torn down. The screen was too far from the road for us to be able to see what exactly was happening on the screen, but we liked to try and laugh about it. There are now apartments and a Walmart built on the land. It was really too hot to go often to that theatre since I live in Texas.
Thanks for sharing those memories Barb. It’s crazy to think that so many drive-ins have closed over the years.
i never got to go to a drive-in and i'm 39 and never seen one that was operating. more importantly though... I NEED THAT HUBBA BUBBA SODA IN MY LIFE!
You need BOTH in your life! Good thing you came along with us on this trip to the past! 😉
I would be looking online to see where one is, and even if it's a bit of a drive, then do it at least once for a movie you really want to see, as the experience is total worth it. Just make sure to take a good portable radio with plenty of battery power, and extra snacks for the cartrip.
NOICE! ^
It is was probably significantly harder sneaking in after it converted we’re guessing. 😆
@@RetroDaze No not really...near as I can tell, what people just started doing form the 90s onwards was have one or two friends pay to get in...then open the theater door for their friends waiting on the outside of hteb uilding. Worked everytime :P
@@RetroDaze Although admittedly I did that too a few times in my youth. AS did others I knew :P lol
Ah man I remember going to my local drive in a lot of days during the summers. Where I live summers can get a bit chilly at night. So there was nothing like sitting under a blanket in the back of a truck or SUV and watching some movies outside while eating some drive in foods while having the night breeze hit you gently. It was such a great time!
@@josh24441 Yah those were good times. I am getting nostalgic over EVERYTHING from back in the day ffs lol T
I never went to the drive-in as a child. The first time I ever went was years ago in Tucson AZ. I wish the local drive-in had a better selection of moves. Unfortunately, the majority is kids movies. Wish we could all jump in the time machine for real.
As do we! Hopefully this little journey gave you a small taste of the joy of those days.
@RetroDaze Indeed it did. 🙂
I'm working on it... 😛
@AnthonyJRapino Work faster. I'm impatient, lol.😆
@@fairyfart1981 😎
The last drive in movie i seen was Gone iIn 60 Seconds. Then the outside theater closed. People were driving 100MPH IN A 45 MPH. It was a stone driveway and EVERYONE WAS DOING DONUTS!👍🏻🇺🇲
Ahh man. So many great drive-ins are gone. It’s a case of not knowing what we have until it’s gone. Really wish our local one still existed. Thanks once again ZMan! Appreciate you!
If you have a VR headset, you can sort of approximate seeing drive in movies. That's pretty neat. And with tons of old school B movies available on RUclips for free, you can pick any two you want to make your own double feature.
Is there an app on VR that allows you to be in a drive-in environment? That would be cool.
@RetroDaze The app called Bigscreen has an outdoor drive in as one of its virtual environments.
@@bartsimpson83That’s awesome!
There's still a Drive-in Movie theater in my area (The Big MO in Monetta, SC), and it's a bit of a drive at about an hour, but my family tires to go at least once a year for the experience as they almost always to do a double feature on each of the 3 screens they have, & the prices are too bad compared to the normal theaters. So as long as weather holds out this year I'm grabbing my boom box, loading up the Highlander, taking the family to see Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, and buying some foot long chili dogs at the concession stand. 👍
Oh man! Now that sounds like a trip to the drive-in we’d really enjoy! Don’t be surprised if you find the RetroDaze crew hiding in the back. 😆
Like i said over there at "Rhetty for Historys" channel Im the tail end of Gen X, born 1980 and had 2 older brothers. So i seemed to lean toward alittle older generation and less millennial. Which in retrospect is an odd place to have been raised with a strange perspective..😮
We have a Drive in Oregon Ohio right outside of Toledo called the Sundance kid, its been there in operation since the 1950s. And still in operation, kids today actually might be lucky for it. 😂❤ cheers
Ah, I was also born in 1980 (though I was the eldest), but I totally understand existing in this weird cusp generation where we can relate to either end. I tend to be a good mixture of the two, I think. Thanks for watching!
We’re happy to have you as Gen X OR Millennial! As a fellow Buckeye (Producer Tony) I am very happy that some drive-ins are still kicking in our state. All of the ones that were closest to me are now gone. 😔
Thanks for the interesting throwbacks. I personally love it. My 17 year old son....yea. 17 year old son these days. He called me a boomer. But he says we are stupider than his Gen z mob 🤣 haha jokes on him. Lol
@@jonathanfreedom1st Tell him if his ‘mob’ is so smart, show you how to operate a stick shift. 😆
@@RetroDaze right. They don't know what an Ash tray is in a car. 🤣👏
I've only been to a drive-in movie theater once, and it was either in the late 90s or early 2000s. I can't remember which. I also can't remember which movie we watched while we were there. I do remember eating burnt popcorn there, though. The closest drive-in theater in Florida near me is the one up in Ruskin, and that's a long ways off from St Pete. I've been wanting to go there for the longest time, but my dad kept saying it's too far away to drive. Maybe someday we'll go back there.
Also, since my mom, dad and I are having a yard sale today, it would be cool if you did a video on nostalgic yard and garage sale memories from the 70s, 80s and 90s.
@@AutisticPhantomOtaku That’s not a bad suggestion there APO. Thank you!
@@RetroDaze You're welcome!
I need to buy a wristwatch for the first time since 2020, and they didn't have a single non-smart watch in Target or Walgreen's. (I'll try Walmar tomorrow,) Anyways, when I asked a Target worker where the non-Smart watches were, he seemed really confused at the idea, so I explained it was something that told you the time without the extra bells and whistles, something only old guys like me wear. He said, "I like to refer to it as retro rather than old." That got a big laugh from me. Keep it up.
Didn’t realize it was that difficult to find one nowadays! Pretty much have to go used on Ebay.
@@RetroDaze I'm an old guy, so I'm confused. What is this "Ebay" thing you are talking about?
@@Robalini1Well, it’s this thing they call a “web page” where you can bud on junk… you know what, nevermind. It’s too new-fangled.
Loved the drive-in! The last one in my hometown recently shut down after 66 years. RIP Wallis Mainline 1956-2022.
Fave bit: every time there waa a sex scene, ppl tooted their horns and flashes their high-beams, lighting up the big screen. Always cracked me up.
Ditto hiding in the boot to sneak in for free and seeing someone drive off with the speaker still attached to the window 😂
Oh gosh!!! All of these tidbits of drive-in experiences would have been fun additions to our little journey here! Sad that your drive-in is now gone though. That bites.
@@RetroDaze They really seem to be an American - Australian thing. So many little quirks. Like "adult content" - my local drive-in showed soft core porn on Saturday nights, lol. Always thought it made the drive-in cops a bit hypocritical. Knocking on windows and shining torches on amorous couples in the back seat, haha
They wanted the performances to be live I suppose.
I finally tried Crunch Tators this past November or December. You could get them at Dollar General, but they only had the original flavor when I went, which was a disappointment. I wanted to try the Mesquite ones which I first noticed in Home Alone. They were good for plain chips, but they’re just plain.
Not to mention they likely don’t taste quite the same, with so many ingredients changing with time and evolving health standards.
The funny thing is the only movie I ever saw in a drive-in was in Portland, Oregon during the summer of 1982, where I saw Blade Runner for the first time. Which is hilarious, because if there is one movie you really shouldn't see in a drive-in, it would be Blader Runner, as the visuals and sounds don't get the full justice they deserve. Despite this, I knew that movie was really special even at twelve years old...
Oh no! Well, in the end it ended up being a fond memory, and then later on you got to enjoy the full visual experience on home video. 😆 And yes! That film’s visuals STILL hold up! It’s crazy.
@@RetroDaze I saw it later in a proper theater that summer, and in 1992 saw it in Santa Monica with my pal Jeff Weir (who is still with EA and was the original art director for the Sims 4.) Fun times.
@@Robalini1Even better! Guessing not many can say they watched Blade Runner in its first run in both a drive-in AND a theater. 😆
Bonus points for using a lot of footage also used by BrutalMoose in his stream openings. Hope you don't mind me posting for a third time on this video, but I have to give a BrutalMoose shoutout.
@@Robalini1 Not familiar with BrutalMoose, but we’re about to be. 😉
@@RetroDaze BrutalMoose is a lot of fun. Lots of solid absurdist humor.
Ok I know about drive in movies in the 50’s-80’s but what about movie theaters back then what did they look like
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Batman 89 made the world take Michael Keaton more seriously!!!
It definitely made us aware that he could tackle all kinds of roles. Since then he’s played characters of all stripes, including bad guys!