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    This would not be the configuration the drive-in would be in during operation. This looks like some daytime parking situation, car dealer storage?

    There is a strong shadow, daytime so the screen wouldn’t be able to be seen. Many of the cars are parked sideways! Some of the cars are parked facing a wall where they can’t see the screen whatsoever. This is storage

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      I agree. This is NOT a drive in theater. The screen is way too small and it should be rectangular, not square. Also, about half the cars are parked in ways where they can’t see the screen.

      This is either a car storage area that had the screen shopped in or someone told an AI “make me a vintage photo of a 1950s drive in,” and the AI added the screen and the (badly parked) cars without understanding how a drive in is supposed to work.

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        You’re half right. This is a drive-in theater. It was called the Moonlite Outdoor Theatre and was around long after the 1950s. However this is during the off season, and during the that period it was used by a nearby automaker for vehicle storage. Additionally, drive-in theaters (which still exist btw) don’t show films during the day. The first showing is usually at dusk.

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    god im still (and will always be) so upset these didn’t make a huge comeback during the pandemic like I hoped :(

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      One did here! We went to see this there last month, because they were doing free monster and horror movies on weeknights in October.

      It was even the subtitled version!

      The cool thing now is they don’t do the hanging the speaker in the window thing anymore. You just tune your car to a radio frequency they tell you when you enter.

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        My drive-in still has the window speakers, but also has the radio option too. I think we only went once this year, for Deadpool and Wolverine.

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          This is the only time we went this year. What’s nice about not having the window speakers is they got rid of the poles, so they have a big space they can use for other events during the day. Like they did a Trunk-or-Treat there last month.

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      The one by our house picked up quite a bit during COVID. It’s slowed down a little since, but it seems in a more healthy state than it was preCOVID.

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      Great thought, but parking nowadays costs more than anybody would want to pay to see a movie lol.

      Alternate idea - watch a virtual drive-in movie on VR goggles while sitting in your car.

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      Based on what I know about what teens did at drive-ins back then, it didn’t really matter.

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      People weren’t there for the show. At least not the one on the screen.

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      And who’s parking at the front, along the right facing the rest of the cars?

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        Parking at the side or front is for when you drive there in your own car, and then get in your friend’s car for the movie.

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          This whole thing is a giant monument to how bad cars are for society. Like instead of having theater seats for your ass, we have seats for your car. And then these other people, they can’t even bother to carpool, pick their friend up. Instead the friend drives there in their own car, and then goes to join you in your car. Did anyone ever stop to think about how crazy that is?

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            Have you ever been to one? Most people do carpool, but on a lot that size theres plenty of room for a few people to have to join late or maybe only make it to the second or 3rd film(most weekends there are 3 movies that play.

            Thursday nights were carload nights and you would cram as many people into a car and pay 35 dollars for everyone to watch 2 movies, possibly 3 even

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    It’s like baseball, for cars!

    It’s almost like some people aren’t there to watch the movie at all?
    What could they possibly do? What could teenagers do that they couldn’t do at home with mom and dad and little pest of a brother/sister?

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      Well for one thing, they won’t be listening to any of those longhair bongo bongo rock and roll records in this house, mister!

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    The red area is the equivalent of a stadium seat that is obstructed by a column:

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      Staff park there or is it just for the couples who are there “to watch any movie”, is you follow my meaning

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      That’s just the mutual masturbation area where you didn’t care about the movie, you just needed some time alone with your date to get fingerblasted or get your pole tugged.

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    Imagine how much more space efficient it would’ve been if they had taken the bus instead.

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    Loved Halloween and drive ins when I was a kid.

    I was up in Timmins one year with my family and we spent Halloween collecting candy and then everyone packed into a van to go to the local drive in. We stayed up watching cheesy horror films with Vincent Price and all the oldies back to back until about three in the morning. I don’t remember much because I fell asleep after falling off a sugar high about half an hour into the first movie and then slept the rest of the time. Nothing like waking in a daze to big giant images of Vincent Price on a big giant screen in the middle of the northern wilderness.

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    Since I started to watch Uzumaki (anime adaptation) I see spirals everywhere with an unsettling vibe every time…

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    I’m pretty sure this is the same one we went to when we were kids! Though not at the same time as this picture. It’s really neat to see what it looked like then.

    Texted my family to see what it is but I may not find out for over a week lol.

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    Cool and all but such a stupid concept. Watching on a phone would make more sense

    Edit: regarding screen size. As the screen is so tiny because those fucking cars need so much space. Of course they didnt have OLED 4K 160Hz smartphones back then…

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      I’ve been going to drivein movie theatre for 40 years. They shut down this year. I’m absolutely crushed by it.

      It was such a good experience if you are me. Love being outdoors and also love going to the movies. I grew up on it.

      Even all the negatives are part of the experience* that makes it good memories for me

      I’m still sad about it

      *Didnt notice I autocorrect chose the word recording

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        Have you ever been in an outdoors movie theatre without a car? It’s different and great, because you’re truly outside. Also the dimensions are like in normal theatres.

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          Yes. Theatre in the park events.

          Very similar, and an acceptable if lesser experience.

          Being truly outside is misleading and i reject it though. For the last 10 years i rarely spent time in a car while at the drivein. I upgraded from blanket to camping chairs to baggy mcbags to a portable hammock

          All set up under the stars. Really cant say enough good things about hammocks.

          That all being said ive been single since i was 29 so your results might vary.

          But i digress. I was truly outside anytime ive wanted to be for a long time. At the theatre that just closed was a grassy area between the front row and the screen. It was by far the best spot in the whole place to be outside laying on your back without any cars infront of you just the people next to you to disturb you, and if you avoided weekends and able to go on school nights you rarely even had that.

          The other good thing about it is you can bring your crying baby or your pets and if there is a problem you have your nice safe car to take care of them or at least prevent them from disturbing others. If you are a respectful.person which in my experience most people have been

          Edit: for clarity i do not have pets or children so those things are observations that were appreciated by me

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      Yeah why didn’t those idiots in the 1950s just watch it on their phones

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        No like the space is so huge that calling it “cinema” is strange.

        Not sure if there were other reasons not to go outside of the cars and watch on like ⅒ the space

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      Watching it on a drotary phone back then would’ve required landlines for every viewer. Highly inconvenient.

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      Yeah, those 1940s kids should have just stayed home by themselves and streamed those movies instead of socializing and making out!

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    yeah i actually miss those things sometimes… and i see the old meadowbrook site is still there but on its way back to nature

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      Yeah I think they were a cool experience. They still exist in some cities too. I know in Texas, if you google “metroplex” drive in, you’ll usually find one that is operational

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        yeah went duck hunting for them a bit ago and found a lot. some are closed for the season but come back in spring