TimeOut

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...  

It didn’t really catch on in Europe. Did you enjoy it ?

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 ...  

Thank goodness they saved that wonderful sign.

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...  

and slightly spooky at the same time 🦇

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.....

... 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...