BS: Memories of the drive-in

Subject: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 08:36 PM

Watched a lovely little film last night about drive-in movie theatres - it brought back a few memories! The review in the paper said "if you were born in the late 50s, chances are you were conceived at a drive-in".

Movie link

Anyone else have memories of going to the drive-in?

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Skivee
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 08:51 PM

We went to see "The Blob" at a drive-in theater. Early in the film my sister got hysterical because the blob was about to absorb a small dog. She got so upset that my parents started the car up and we got the hell out of Dodge. We incurred the wrath of other customers as out headlights swept across the screen.
Years later I saw the movie and found out that the dog wasn't harmed at all. I've hated Scotties since then.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Bobert
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 08:52 PM

Near-beer...

Sneakin' kids in in the trunk of the car...

Steamy windows and...

...Diane Wilson!!!

(Whew, steams up my glasses just thinkin' of those nights...)

B~

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 08:54 PM

Probably steamed up the car windows too Bobert......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: frogprince
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 08:57 PM

The next-to-the last time I went to a drive in movie, in 1969, in Arkansas, I didn't see much of the movie for the steam inside the windshield. The last time, in 1974, in the north suburbs of Chicago,
feral teenages were roaming all over the grounds so constantly that my date and I were too intimidated to do much to steam up the windshield.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Charley Noble
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 09:14 PM

I have this memory of watching "Run Silent, Run Deep" (a World War 2 submarine thriller) during a rain storm. It was totally awesome!

I also have memories of how people dressed for an evening out at the drive-in. Some dressed in their night clothes and then paraded around during the breaks in the search for refreshments. It was truly a fashion show unrivaled to this day.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 09:17 PM

Well, yeah, I have memories of the drive-in. But I'm not sure you guys are ready for them, even now. I'm not sure I'M ready for them for that matter.

(There are still active drive-ins around here.)

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Peace
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 09:18 PM

Clothes, at a drive-in? Sheesh . . . .

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 11:50 PM

Rap, you don't think you should take Pat along one night? purely in the interests of research for this thread, you understand......

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Rowan
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 12:21 AM

JennieG, I saw the same docco last night and it brought back many memories. There was even a passing image of the first drive-in in Melbourne, with a "For Sale" sign, near the end.

The Sunset Drive In, in Maribyrnong, was the first to be built in Melbourne and my father was the draughtsman who did the plans for its construction; a neighbour was the son of the chief engineer for Hoyts so they had good access to anything that MGM distributed. In the early days, he also worked as a car hop (the drive in equivalent of an usher) and this meant I got to see enough secondrate MGM flicks to be able to view the first ten minutes of any American film and correctly predict its ending.

The bit the docco missed out was the details of the projectors. Because they had to produce enough light to give satisfactory reflectance of images, from an enormous scree to the back row, they used serious arc lamps, the details of which fascinated me as a young lad; being related to "staff" I was allowed into the projection box to watch the whole procedure.

It was also my first exposure to Minigolf, as they had a setup just under the screen.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: freightdawg
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 12:28 AM

There is a wonderful active drive-in in a little hamlet in southern Colorado that has a motel built against the back fence. You can watch the movie out of your motel room,(complete with stereo sound) or the locals can drive-in. In a similar event to Charley's, we went to see a submarine movie and it started raining...it was either Hunt for Red October or Crimson Tide. It was too cool.

As a wee little puppy I remember the beginnings of a lot of Clint Eastwood spaghetti westerns, but darned if I can remember the end of any of them. Me and sis would go in our jammers and conk out before much shootin' ever commenced.

Freightdawg

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Janie
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 01:33 AM

I grew-up with drive-ins. Mom and Dad took us to many more drive-in's than to movie theaters. In my teens, my sisters and I had the good fortune to be good friends with a brother/sister duo in their late 20's-early 30's. Ann and Gib were their names. An old couple had three acres and an old barn that abutted our backyard in one of the first, small housing developments in the area. We both kept our horses there. They lived with their parents on the other side of the pasture -had moved there a few years earlier from the mid-west. Were it not for the horses, we would probably never have known them. They were 'ferriners' in a semi-rural community that offered little to young adults in terms of social life. We rescued each them from isolation, and they rescued us from parochialism (sp?) The pasture and barn had been empty for years and years until we got our horse and talked the old couple into doing just enough repairs to the barn and fence for us to put the horse there. Ann and Gib would come down to the pasture on their side to pet the horse and feed him sugar cubes and apples. That is how we met them. Within a few months, they bought a horse too, and rented the other stall.

During the warmer months, at least once a month, one of them would call our parents to ask if they could take us to the drive-in. Ann had an old Volvo station wagon, and that is what we usually went in. Mom would fix a gallon thermos of Kool-aid, and us girls would pop enough popcorn to fill a grocery bag. Ann & Gib would come pick us up and head for the Star-lite drive-in over in St. Albans. It was such a happy, fun, wholesome time. I don't remember much about the movies we saw - Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn (she of the beautiful neck), Steve McQueen, Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Peter Sellers, Peter O'toole - those are some of the actors in their prime I remember -but not the movies themselves.

I'd forgotten about those idylic times. Thanks for starting a thread to jar the memory.

The last drive-in I remember going to was with a college friend somewhere along about 1970 or 1971. It was an all night marathon. We watched Patton, Easy Rider, Mash, and Alice's Restaurant. A powerful quartet.

Thanks again for stirring up the memories.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: MBSLynne
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 03:18 AM

Most of my drive-in memories are of steamy windows too! For several years between age 17 and early 20s I spent at least one evening a week at the drive-in. I used to love it on holiday weekends when, after the main film, which finished at about 11, there would be a double horror until the early hours.

When I was in WA a few years ago, it was very sad to see the old drive in sites derelict and unused.

Actually, I saw heaps of good films I would never otherwise have seen. Well...saw most of them anyway!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 03:48 AM

It seems the Drive-in never really caught on in the UK, you've all had an experience that just passed us by. Mind you, we have mushy peas and Fawlty Towers to make up for it.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: MBSLynne
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 04:15 AM

I don't think English weather is really suitable for them. Also, I remember when WA tried out daylight saving one year. The extra hour of light in the evening meant you couldn't really see the screen properly for the first part. It needs to be dark, so in England, when the weather is possibly fit for it, the evenings are too light

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: GUEST,John Gray In Oz
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 07:58 AM

I worked at a drive-in in 61-62 when I was 14/15. I was the kid in the white coat that came around and took your order when you put the little red service light on.
It was amazing how many people forgot they had the service light on and had got into the backseat to test the upholstery. That's when I tapped on the window with "car service mister?" Panic followed. I think I'm responsible for quite a few slipped discs and pulled muscles.
One night when I was down the back row ( sin city ) it started to rain. The bloke driving told me to get in and he would drive me up to the cafeteria. I jumped in the back seat and found a woman naked waist up sitting next to me. Well - was I king of the kids at school next day.
One feller wanted to buy my job from me.
I reckon I got a goodly amount of my sex education in that job.

JG/FME

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Alaska Mike
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 09:01 AM

One winter, back in the mid 90's the town of Valdez, Alaska had so much precipitation that the city carved out a 50 foot tall movie screen out of the snow. They got an old projector and talked the local radio station into broadcasting the movie's sound track. Then they invited the entire town to come to the Valdez Drive. Folks showed up dressed in parkas and mukluks, tuned their radios to the right frequency and had a grand old time. The pass over the mountains was closed, so only the locals got to attend.

Before we moved to Alaska, our family would go to the drive-in movies in my old pickup truck. We had a camper with a bed, and a window to crawl through from the cab. Our kids would watch the first movie and then crawl through to the camper and go to sleep while Tawmmie and I cuddled together and "watched" the second feature by ourselves. Ahh, great memories. Nice thread, Jennie.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Donuel
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 11:32 AM

I was 7 in the backseat while my parents were wathcing Day of the Triffids". When the monster lurched on screen I grabbed my dad's should and he jumped, hitting the roof of the car.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: MBSLynne
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 01:17 PM

I remember lots of people used to get their kids into their night clothes and take them to the drive in. The kids would go to sleep in the back seat while the parents watched the film. Saved having to get a baby sitter.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Becca72
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 01:33 PM

I have vague memories of the drive in. I remember one movie where this mentally challanged boy got his foot stuck in the train tracks and got hit by the train...very draumatic build up, but I have no idea what the film was. I also remember seeing Annie at the drive-in with my cousin. We always went in our PJs, being young enough that one or both of us was sure to fall asleep by the 2nd feature.

We still have a handful of working drive-ins here, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 02:42 PM

Used to be "Dollar A Car" nights -- no matter how many were in the car, it cost a dollar to get it. Whole families were conceived just waiting to get to the ticket booth.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Bill D
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 02:51 PM

Ah, yes...many drive-in memories. My parents took us (2 boys) often, but to pretty tame films. Saw some Martin & Lewis flicks there. Later, 1965 or so, I had a VW bus that I would park backwards with the rear door flipped up and one seat facing backwards. Would take a group of 5-6 and loll about.(They insisted I park at the rear so as not to block others.)
The classic 'souvenir' was when you accidentally (usually) forgot to replace the speaker as you left and riiippped it right off the post.
   There was usually a playground for kids right below the screen to entertain the kids while waiting for the sun to go down.

The last memories were when I was a grad student about 1970, and was invited to parties at an English profs house. The back yard was behind the last drive-in in the area. We would all go out in the back yard (many English teachers & grad students, as well as others) and watch strange movies with no sound....no matter, the ad-lib dialogue from our group was better than Hollywood would have written, anyway! Imagine watching Adam & Eve waking up in the Garden of Eden and 'discovering' each other (barely covered by strategic shrubbery) with a bunch of youngish college types providing dialog.


Here is a list of theaters in Kansas...I attended many of those near the bottom, under "Wichita"....including the Airport, the Meadowlark, the 54, the 81, and the K-42 SkyVue.
I assume you might find some of your memories there also.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: GUEST,MarkS
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 04:06 PM

They showed movies at drive-ins? Who knew.
In my area they were locally known as "passion pits."
Don't remember movies but do remember lots about .................
er, uh, oh, um, oh well.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 04:24 PM

When I was 18, I drove one of these, and usually had a good stock of this and this and, most importantly, a girlfriend with more than a passing resemblance to this. I remember going to a lot of drive-in movies. I don't have the foggiest idea what any of them were about.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: JennieG
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 06:07 PM

I like Alaska Mike's description of the snow drive-in at Valdez!

When I was a teenager, before the town where I lived got a drive-in (we had 2 regular movie theatres) some bright spark had the idea of showing movies at the local airport, using the side of a hangar as a screen. I think they may have hung a white sheet, or perhaps the side of the building was smooth? I disremember. We would load up the car with people, and stuff to eat (because there was nowhere to buy any food or drink, the airport is 6 miles out of town) and occasionally - if we was very daring - beer. It was a social occasion as much as a movie one! I'm not sure about sound - perhaps we had our car windows down and the sound was played through large speakers?

When the proper drive-in opened a couple of years later it was luxurious compared to the airport drive-in, but somehow......not as much fun.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Joybell
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 06:36 PM

Yes we got that program out here too, Jennie. Brought back so many memories. We went to see "Herbie" at the drive-in. Beetle-Volkswagons got in free. The movie was terrible but I always loved the drive-in. Didn't matter what was on. We couldn't afford to go too often so we considered it a real treat.

Has anyone seen the low-budget movie called "Drive-in". Used to be run on TV but it seems to have been forgotten. Has some great Country music on it. One memorable song is "God's Gonna Get You For That!" Must look it up.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Joybell
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 06:41 PM

Well that was easy. Lyrics are all over. Actually as: "God's Gonna get 'cha for that" if anyone else is interested.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Rowan
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 10:00 PM

Since yesterday's post I've remembered a few other things about our association with drive ins, none as informative as the sex education s described above as I was then a bit on the young side and I never had a car until I'd already learned about it.

1 In any American movie, if it was implied that someone had seen a member of the opposite sex naked, the two would be married by the end of the movie. I still recall first realising this when I saw Tammy and I still occasionally play the tune (I try to forget the words) as part of a waltz bracket; someone once told me that the tune originally had been Cajun but I'm sure 'catters will correct me.

2 When about 15 I read in a newspaper article that the temperature in the tip of a burning cigarette was ~750 degrees F; I was sceptical about this but figured I could test the veracity with a bit of cunning. I knew that the ignition temperature of magnesium was less (~650 degrees F?) and I knew I could "borrow" a short length of Mg ribbon from the chemistry lab at school. My father smoked filter tipped cigarettes and I pinched one of his opened packets, carefully removed the tobacco, placed a short strip of magnesium ribbon in the middle and then carefully packed tobacco back in so that the finished product could not be distinguished from the other cigarettes in the pack, put it in with them and left the pack wher he'd find it. I figured I'd get to hear about any result.

A few days later he was driving us to the drive in in the gathering dusk and lit up a smoke. After a minute or so there was a brilliant light in the font of the car, a loud expletive and the flare was thrown out the window onto the road.
"What the hell was that?" he cried, as I watched the flare while we kept driving down the road.
"Dunno, Dad!" I replied. I don't think I ever told him I was responsible, but I was satisfied the newspaper article was probably correct about temperatures in cigarettes.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Rapparee
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 10:20 PM

Mg ribbon? Man, we used to take out some of the tobacco, put in powder from a .22 cartridge, and put the tobacco back in. Of course you gave the cigarette to someone else -- always good for a laugh back then.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Rowan
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 10:49 PM

Rapaire, you're treading on some of my more dangerous memories. When I was 15 I was the school expert on explosives; I (and all my assistants) still have both our eyes and all our fingers so I must have been doing something right. I was also in the local archery club and you remind me of various exploits. I tipped some of my arrows with dead .22 cartidges when dealing with feral cats and rabbits and I experimented with Mg ribbon to make arrow-borne flares. My most successful arrowhead required a used carbon dioxide bomb of the sort used in soda fountains, some cartridge powder from a shotgun shell and a primer from the same shell. In the interests of not drawing the attention of ASIO and the CIA to Mudcat I'll give no further details but that it made a very satisfactory hole in a hardwood (redgum; 72lbs/cubic foot) stump at 100 yards.

But, again, I'm older now.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Slag
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 03:15 AM

Yes. I grew up going to the drive-in with my folks. Early on it was a very sleepy affair. I remember when they finally tore down the old 99 drive-in on the North edge of Bakersfield CA.

But when was my LAST memory of going to an honest-to-God drive-in??? Uhhh, Hmmm! It was last summer! Little Lakeport California has one of only a very small handful of functioning auto drive-in theaters in the nation! If you are ever in this part of Northern California take in the movie at the drive-in!(Summer operation only)

A not so amusing anecdote: There used to be a drive-in on the Marin/Sonoma County line just off Highway 101. North bound traffic could just get a brief glimpse of the screen which was a common occurrence in the days of drive-ins. But when times got tough for this concern they began to show porno movies and suddenly there were several serious accidents and many complaints. After some specious "free-speech" rhetoric they were forced to put a wing up on one side to block the view from the freeway. That didn't help much and the accidents continued, so the powers that be shut them down. You'd think that would have ended the problem but not so! The accidents continued until they finally tore the thing down. Seems some folks had a long memory!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: MBSLynne
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 05:00 AM

So why did drive ins finish? As far as I know there are none in the Perth area any more, yet EVERYONE used to use them. Ok videos etc must have had an impact, but there are still cinemas (though a lot of them closed too) and they are on the up again. Maybe some enterprising person could start up a new drive in? They could do it 'retro' which is always good for sales.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 09:26 AM

"some enterprising person could start up a new drive in? They could do it 'retro'"


Can't get the land you know...

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: frogprince
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 10:36 AM

My best memory concerning a drive-in and porno is second hand, but from a reliable source and with a personal aspect. My father, a Minnesota farmer, used to buy machine parts regularly from a source located right by a drive-in. Once, some years after I had left the farm, my mother waited in the car while Dad made a quick purchase there. By the time he came back out, Mom had realized that a porno film was visible on the theater screen. I was somewhat surprised by the fact that they then sat and watched the whole movie; I was very surprised that they told me as much afterward. My folks usually came across as die-hard puritans.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Charley Noble
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 10:56 AM

Rowan-

Maybe I'll revive our old thread about "rocket science."

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: topical tom
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 12:21 PM

I remember packing the kids into the big station wagon we had then along with blankets and pillows as they would inevitably fall asleep before the end (my wife as well!).At first the speakers were those heavy, awkward ones that hung on the window and usually I ended up letting one fall.Only in the later years did the car radio broadcast the sound track.
   The bane of these drive-ins was rain.Also,sometimes the feature attractions were in other cars and not on the screen!

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: kendall
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 12:36 PM

I remember when Deep Throat came out, I told some friends it was a Disney film about a Giraffe. They were not amused.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: open mike
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 12:36 PM

the drive in an hour south of here was just closed down last year.

the one near me in my childhood home of Omaha had not only mini golf
but a short-lived trampoline recreation place. they would dig a pit
and put the trampoline down in it...so the bouncing surface would be
at ground level and you would be less likely to fall DOWN off of the thing if you bounced off. i think there were some injuries any way,
and those types of businesses were never open long.

here is a page with info on california drive ins
http://www.driveinmovie.com/CA.htm
California's first drive-in movie theatre opened in
June of 1938 (there were less than 15 "auto theatres"
in all of America at that point). Within just ten years,
another 43 drive-ins had opened up and Calfornia was
on its way to becoming one of the top drive-in states.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Joybell
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 04:42 PM

At last! The true explanation of the flares over Northcote. And I always thought it was aliens.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Rapparee
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 04:54 PM

Rowan, don't get me started....

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Skivee
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 01:43 AM

Hey tropical Tom: Your remark about rain being the bane of drive-ins reminded me of a device that was made to lessen that problem. It was a kind of rain shade that you attached to the windshield, with a whimpy wire frame and suction cups...an umbrella for the front window of the car. You could buy them at the concession stand. I imagine that it didn't work well.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 04:48 PM

As it happens, I never went to a drive-in theatre when I was a kid, although I knew they were around. I didn't get around to seeing one until I was married and had my own car! Needless to say, there wasn't much incentive to "get lucky" in the car that night.

Wikipedia has a List of active drive-in theaters (in the US and Canada), and a separate list of Australian Open Drive-in Theatres. There is also an article: Drive-in theater.

A lot of the links go to drive-ins.com.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Rapparee
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 07:07 PM

The one thing that was forbidden at the drive-ins, at least where I grew up, was bringing your own popcorn, food, and drinks. You were supposed to buy these, but of course everyone figured out dodges and brought them in anyway.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Art Thieme
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 11:05 PM

MOSQUITOS!!!
Them's my main memories of drive-in theaters.

Anyone remember the "Chisholm Trail Drive-in" as you take a left turn out of Wellington, Kansas onto the main road to Winfield??

And the "U.S. 41 Drive-in" on the bottom lands of the Ohio River --heading south out of Evansville, Indiana---and passing the Audubon State Park before entering Henderson, Kentucky. I've fond memories of that one--with Gail or Lana in the mid 1950s.

Ah, if it wasn't for time, we'd have to do everything all at once!!

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Rowan
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 11:52 PM

So why did drive ins finish?
Lynne, the docco speculated several reasons (TV, land prices and daylight saving) from an American perspective, although the makers did describe drive ins in Oz s being more central to some aspects of popular culture than in the US. In Oz, dive ins didn't appear until around the time of TV anyway and the only influence TV might have had would probably be the onset of colour telly in '74. My bet (given my recollections of the times) would be on daylight saving as the major problem for drive ins in Oz.

Joy, one day I'll tell you about our efforts with a met balloon;
Charley, ditto about the rocket made from a bicycle frame;
Rapaire, I suspect there's a few 'catters with similar experiences.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: M.Ted
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 12:57 PM

I have read that the thing that closed a lot of drive-ins was the shift from a flat fee rental for films to a percentage of the box office, which destroyed their business model.

According to drive-in.com(linked above) there were 405 drive-ins in the US in 2007--interestingly, 100 or so of these are fairly close together--in Eastern Ohio, and Western New York and Pennsylvania.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 01:56 PM

Thinking back on my experiences in drive-ins, I think a better title for this thread would "Mammaries of the drive-in."

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: kendall
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 04:05 PM

Thanks for the mammaries....

What killed the drive in for me was those awful speakers. Why anyone with normal hearing would steal those is beyond me.
They sounded like a fly under a shingle.

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: Art Thieme
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 05:11 PM

Kendall,

Why the hell do you guys in Maine keep zippers under your shingles????! A mighty stange way to let the rain in!

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Memories of the drive-in
From: MarkS
Date: 14 Jan 08 - 07:23 PM

Rowan and Rapaire

Never ask me to tell you the story of the steel pipe fitted with a spark plug, a nipple to allow hookup of a welding torch, and a spark coil from a Model A Ford.

Gawd! The stuff we routinely used for fun would get us busted by the ATF for being a terroist today!