1ST TIME SNEAKING INTO DRIVE=IN MOVIE
What was the year, the location, drive-ins name, and what was showing "up on the big screen" that evening ??
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I just paid. 
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Did it once. decided it wasn't worth the possible jail time, if caught....17 Y.O. at the time.
1971, The North Twin Drive-In RIVERSIDE, MO, opened on April 17, 1970. The car capacity for the two screens was 775. It was operated by Mid-America Cinemas. The drive-in closed in 1983 and was demolished in 1992. Just a stones throw away from the Riverside Race Track.
"Easy Rider" and " Woodstock" , both rated as R or X movies back then, don't remember which it was, but too young to get in legally , so in the trunk I went!!!..
The two (2) Majors Brothers ( Ronnie and Robert) both on the high school wrestling team ( NORTH OF THE RIVER - OAK PARK H.S. - K.C.MO) with me, provided the trunk space. They were both 19 Y.O. at the time.
Couple of days ago, Peter Fonda passed, didn't think about that movie ( Easy Rider ) for a long time, until I heard about him/that on the news.0 -
Never did that but know some who filled the trunk with people.
Not many drive-in theaters left anymore in the USA ~ but there is one 40 miles from me.0 -
First and only time I snuck in was in the trunk of a '55 Chevy back in the early 60s at The River Breeze Drive-In in Knoxville, TN. Located at the Asheville Hwy Holston River bridge.
The mosquitoes in the summer were big enough to carry off small children.0 -
Snuck in one time and boy, was I disappointed. The movie was ?Closed for Winter?. 0 -
did you see two freezing blondes in a car when you were there? 0 -
Not me, I paid for my ticket.
I heard about some younger teenagers who paid 25 cents each to sneak into the drive-in hiding in a car trunk. After getting the quarters from 4 skinny freshmen, the older guy closed the trunk lid, AND LEFT HIS CAR PARKED IN THE GROCERY STORE LOT while he rode to the drive-in with another guy. Two hours later, he released the half suffocated freshmen and drove away.
It seemed like a great idea(funny as heck, too) BUT 2 of the freshmen had older Brothers who beat the crap out of the guy for locking their little Brothers in the trunk.0 -
Don?t remember what was playing, but back in the 60?s my first car was a 34 ford pick up and my buddy would ride on the right side running-board when we went to the drive-in. It was the ?El Rancho? drive-in in Kent Washington.
Oh, for the good old days!0 -
North 85 Drive In, Atlanta Georgia. It was right on I 85 on the east side, just north of Spaghetti Junction, which was not spaghetti junction in 1966. My buddy had a '47 Plymouth that his parents gave him. We pulled up to the pay gate, two boys in front and three more in the trunk! Really big trunk.
The movie, "For a Few Dollars More."
We snuck in to the drive in all the time, that summer and the next summer. I don't think the owners minded, at least the two guys in front paid, and they figured you would wind up buying an some expensive cokes and popcorn.0 -
way too many stories about the drive in .
one of the funnest in the fall of 1975 ( for general audiences ) seven of us went in thru a bean field ( farm field right next to the drive in now its still showing movies has to be one of the last ones in Ohio but no fence and surrounded by houses same family still holding out, thank them )
any way there seven of us siting in the grass , play area in front of the screen as normal making too much noise
the owner came up ask about our tickets .. the first fellow stated we all came in a Buick station wagon and our buddy had to go home he was sick and had the tickets in the car with him :oops: :oops: :oops:
so the owner went all down the line of us and said OK I want all tell me the same lie so we did 8-) 8-)
he of course knew , so he said I will ask the ticket gal ( his wife ) if a white Buick wagon with eight people came in wait here ..
as he walked away ( I know he was giving us time to run like hell ) he got about 30 feet and we all headed for the field as we jumped up one kid knocked the glasses of Randy they started yelling come back ( we thought it was the owner so we ran faster ) got soaked from the dew on the bean field running back thru it . we met up at my parents house about a 1/2 mile away
of course next week we were back two or three in the trunk and a couple in the front paying and so it went for years
I have so many great memories from the local drive ins when younger its a shame so many drive ins have went into the history books
' it was the auto view in Sidney Oh and the Piqua drive in
thanks for the post I have flood of old fond memories and friends now0 -
114th and Dodge street was at the edge of town. beyond that was farmland. night turned it into farmland and darkness.
Dodge street had come from a dubious start going past the Westroads shopping mall, down a mile-long huge hill past the I-680 interchange with the tall lights they have on such highways, then the Old Mill shopping center off to the sides, with a few store lights peering from down the embankments, arriving at Dewey Chevrolet with its well lit parking lot, which abruptly ended at the Golden Spike drive-in theater at the foot of the hill, a blot of darkness and trees as seen from the hill earlier on. from there Dodge street went off again uphill into the farmland and darkness.
114th street had come from the left, having cut across town for a while before going through a subdivision, then a short two or three blocks of stores before winding down to a Dairy Queen on one side and a Burger King on the other, then nothing but a large vacant lot with a dirt footpath going off to the left, uphill and parallel to Dodge Street. on the other side of the intersection was the Golden Spike.
the Golden Spike was a rather large gravel parking lot in front of a very large sign that said "Golden Spike", lit by dim spotlights, set next to the ticket office entrance and over the 6 foot horizontal-boarded fence that surrounded the property.
but off to the left, 114th street had continued, dwindling to a gravel road covered in black trees blotting out any light from the night sky. to the left might be a trailer park, if you could see it; ahead lay only a long dark path underneath the black trees, leading who knows where, because nobody had ever gone there. it was terrifying. there were stories of albino cannibals from the farm chasing people who were foolish enough to walk down their road.
but there were still people who braved the cannibals and darkness to climb the fence and sneak into the drive-in to meet up with their buddies already in a car. so they hired security to patrol the perimeter. not rent-a-cops, just whoever they thought fit the bill. (this was in the late 70's early 80's, they could do that) one such personnel, I heard, was Richard Montoya. he was a kid from the neighborhood. although he was in the sixth grade, he had practiced the martial arts for several years and was very good with nunchucks. word was he would patrol the outside of the fence with nunchucks in his back pocket and was the best security guard they had.
for us, being in the fifth grade, the drive-in was the greatest thing in town with its lights, cars, beer and high-school age girls. it was irresistable. we had to sneak in. that meant dodging albino cannibals, security guards, Richard Montoya, terrifying darkness covered in trees, and who knows what else. it was worth the risk.
we snuck, crawled and creeped along the fence until we got to a spot in some bushes where we could climb to the top of the fence and see the screen. we were too afraid to climb over for fear of getting busted. we could sort of hear the audio because they broadcast it on the radio so you could play it in your car and some did that sort of loud. so we stayed there looking over the fence watching the movie for a while, before we decided this sucked and we went back home.
a few years later I figured out the move was Mad Max.0 -
I had a '65 VW Bug back in '65 and a friend of mine wanted to try to sneak into the Knoxville Drive-In theater that was on Kingston Pike in West Knoxville while lying under the hood/trunk in that bug. He was a fat boy and that VW trunk space was tight. I had to shove and squash that hood down on him with the help of a couple of friend to get it to latch as he hollered in pain and moaned. When we got in the drive-in and got parked I pull the hood release and that damn thing blew open like it was blasted open. Of course that explosion got the attention of the ushers or guards or what ever you call them and they came running and we were all thrown out of the place :P . I couldn't quit laughing at that big redheaded idiot crawling out of the hood of that bug. I don't see how it didn't do him some permanent damage. 0 -
we had two of our buddies in the trunk , would not let them out they started yelling and banging on the trunk about 1/2 thru the first show we let them out but again a few weeks later they were back in the trunk to get back in :shock: :shock:
there use to be a XXX movie only rated drive in about 20 miles from us ( even then it seemed odd ) we would go there sometimes use fake ID;s
once the gate keeper ticket seller said OK go on in but were all going to jail together for the girls you have with your if caught .0 -
Not a sneak in experience but a memory I will never forget. Summer of 1971\2 my older brother and I rode along with a tight wad neighbor kid who had a late 60's 4 door chevy something. We had to chip in for gas money to get to the Traverse Drive Inn that was about 15 miles away, along with paying for the drivers admission into see the movie's double feature.
The first movie that night was "Something Big" which starred Dean Martin and Ben Johnson. Brother and I made the BIG mistake of both buying a couple of hot dogs at the concession stand before the movie started. As the movie rolled along, so did the contents of both of our stomach's! Before the plot thickened we were having such bad cramps we both made a bee line to the bathroom. Upon entering, we found such a stinking pukey\shit mess, there was just NO way neither of us could use that facility!!
Getting back to the car, our dick head chauffer neighbor refused to take us home, insisting on finishing both movies. :evil: Brother and I began our hike homeward along the East Bay beach where we left 2 piles of stinking drizzle :shock: in the sand that night.0 -
This wasn't my first trip to the drive in, this was my last.
The year was 1983, I was a 32 year old paramedic in central Georgia, I was going out with a music major gal, a 22 year old violinist who attended the North Carolina School for the Arts in Winston Salem.
I went up there for a weekend visit, I must tell you these "artist types" are pretty wild, I have dated a few of them.
So Laura told me they had a porno drive in! Hell I had thought all the drive ins were gone by that year. So we got a bottle of wine and went to the porno drive in. We wound up imitating the action on the screen there in the back seat of my car, I must say the windows got pretty steamed up.
This gal today is the lead violin with a symphony orchestra in a large southern city but I better leave that alone.0 -
W/O PHOTO'S DID THAT REALLY HAPPEN??
Just a joking !!!0 -
allen griggs wrote:This wasn't my first trip to the drive in, this was my last.
The year was 1983, I was a 32 year old paramedic in central Georgia, I was going out with a music major gal, a 22 year old violinist who attended the North Carolina School for the Arts in Winston Salem.
I went up there for a weekend visit, I must tell you these "artist types" are pretty wild, I have dated a few of them.
So Laura told me they had a porno drive in! Hell I had thought all the drive ins were gone by that year. So we got a bottle of wine and went to the porno drive in. We wound up imitating the action on the screen there in the back seat of my car, I must say the windows got pretty steamed up.
This gal today is the lead violin with a symphony orchestra in a large southern city but I better leave that alone.
Along with the girls corny moans and groans?0 -
My earliest memories of a Drive In Movie, were back in the 60's. We had a house off base from Ft. Bliss, El Paso, TX. After just having returned from 6 years in Europe. (3 years Ider Oberstein, and 3 years Srasburg.)
We would go up on the roof of our house with lawn chairs and watch the movies for free, sans sound. (1/4 mi. away?)
B&W Godzilla, who cared about sound. We were kids, living large.0 -
betcha everybody did. get under the screen with some binoculars and it looks like an Aerobics classallen griggs wrote:We wound up imitating the action on the screen there in the back seat of my car,0
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