Going...going...

[SteveG]

Drive-in movie theaters, which numbered 4,300 in 1957, have dwindled to just 350 today in U.S.. (Source AP)

[artie67]

Signs of new life as the Paramount Drive-in is coming back to life in South Los Angeles.
http://www.presstelegram.com/business/20...-reopening

[Paul F.]

I'm a little surprised there are that many...

[GGD]

What is causing this? The divorce rate in Maine? Per capita consumption of margarine?

[SteveG]

Paul Bunyan heroically chopped down America's forests...fading fast..

[jdc]

theres a drive in close to us, we have been a couple of times in the last year -- but the over all expereince was rather dissappointing.

too many cars, too many lights and too much cannibis. Movie looked fine -- but sound wasnt that great? or hard to hear unless you were sitting in the front seat of the car.

http://www.westwinddi.com/westwind/index...n/location&idtheater=3563

Im sure I have been to the Paramount drive in, I grew up only a few miles away, but I dont remember going to it. Unless things have changed drastically in the last 30 years, in the 80s Paramount was *not* a city to visit, especially at night -- being right over the "river" from Compton. Before the 80s, it was probably fine. my mom and dad both grew up in Compton/Lynwood and I visited my grandmother often.

There was one in Long Beach we did go to all the time, but now its a 24 hour fitness.

[bazookaman]

Paul F. wrote:
I'm a little surprised there are that many...

Same here.

[Acer]

bazookaman wrote:
[quote=Paul F.]
I'm a little surprised there are that many...

Same here.
I've been hearing about the death of the drive-in regularly for 40 years.
I went to one. Once. I don't recall the film, I had other things on my mind.

[tronnei]

Found a great little Colorado drive in on vacation in 2010, so we had to go. Toy Story 3 was the show. My boys' first--and probably last--visit to one.

[CW2V]

I remember the one in California where I took my friends in my '68 Dodge van. We would drag the modified couch (one of the arms was removed to make it fit) out of the back and set it in front of the van and watch the movie in comfort and in the great outdoors. Nothing like it.

Really miss those days.

CW2V