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Interesting reading dear Captain!! I feel that drive in cinemas ...
... had a greater popularity in the USA and is part of its popular culture.
In my Country Auto Cines was the name and arrived around the 1970’s and they were received with great curiosity as our people was eager to experiment what was only known through films or magazine articles before the arrival of these first local enterprises.
Though they showed to be very popular in the first years their popularity decreased very quickly and they disappeared in short time. I’m not very sure but I guess that in early 1980’s they had completely gone.
A few years ago the City Government of our Federal District of Buenos Aires offered sessions of cinema in open spaces in several popular parks where visitors could view pictures from their cars. Sound was through FM radio.
This was organized in Summer as part extensive programs offering different ways to popularize the use and enjoyment of public parks and facilities.
I remember going to drive in cinemas in the 1970’s just to try a novelty here. But I was not very fond of it as sound was not very good and vision neither. Some of my young married friends with little childs liked this system as a solution to view a film even when babies cried or children made noise playing or arguing between them!
Your post is very interesting and full of nostalgia! Thank you my friend!
Cheers! Abel
Drive-In Movies...
The Drive-In Movie is part of social history and with it being the theme for WristScan this weekend, I thought that the history of the drive-in would be interesting to some of us. The first drive-ins are thought to have opened around 1910, but records sho...
Very popular in Seattle in the Fifties & Sixties
The rain doesn’t matter so much as steamed up windows in the cars. We would have to run the engine periodically to warm up ourselves and defrost the windscreen. Some deluxe slots in our drive-in had little electric heaters on the speakers you put in your ...
They were big in Canada and I spent many nights there...
When I was younger I went with my parents and sister and they were usually double features which we fell asleep halfway through. When I was in my late teens I had a hearse that I drove and my girlfriend and I would park backwards, open the back door, clim...
Have fond Drive In memories
From the late 60s. None related to the actual movies! Also recall that there was more than just steam clouding up the interior of some vehicles here in So Cal.....
Interesting reading dear Captain!! I feel that drive in cinemas ...
... had a greater popularity in the USA and is part of its popular culture. In my Country Auto Cines was the name and arrived around the 1970’s and they were received with great curiosity as our people was eager to experiment what was only known through f...
